The Forgiven

Christian Metal Meets the Metaverse | P86:OMNI

Andrew Schwab spent four years writing a novel about a tech company that offers to upload your soul and let you live forever. He thinks most people would take the deal.

Pastor Gives Up Screaming for His Church | amen

Someone in amen's church was uncomfortable with a pastor who screams. He doesn't think screaming is a sin. He gave it up anyway. Caleb makes music as amen, and he is on

Bullied Pastor's Kid to Pop Punk Princess | Grace Graber

Grace Graber says the reason you cannot forgive someone is usually not about that person at all. It is about someone you never forgave five years ago. She was assaulted

Christian Metal in Skull Masks | BLOODLINED

A church sign on the way to work read: the enemy cannot cross the bloodline. By the time Disciple 13 finished reading it, he had the whole band. He was not in church at

For Those Who've Lost Their Path | DIVIDED ME

Divided Me plays Christian festivals and they play bars, and they walk into both asking the same question: how do we worship here? "When we get there, it's let's see how

TikTok Preacher to Christian Metal | amen

One day amen is going to stop making music. No announcement, no farewell record and no goodbye. “One day this is gonna end, and when it does, it’s gonna happen suddenly.

You Don't Want To Get Better | MAGDALENE ROSE

Maggie Rojas spent years asking God to fix her. It took her husband to point out that she might not actually want to get better yet. Maggie was saved at eleven but spent

Homeless at 15 to Evangelist | POETRY ON FIRE

Kaleb Webb and Evan Chapman have been best friends since they were five. Then Kaleb nearly didn’t survive being a teenager—and Evan refused to stop showing up. At fiftee

From Occult to Christian Grungecore | TIFFANY TWISTED

Hetti Harper of Tiffany Twisted trained as a medium at a spiritualist association in London. Then Jesus got hold of her. During lockdown, Hetti spent hours each day medi

Violin Metalcore Shouldn't Work | DRIVE THRU SOCIETY

Drive Thru Society got their name from a question: is church becoming a place you pull up to, grab a feel-good sermon, and drive away from? Meg was driving home past a d

Trying to Disprove Christianity | OF MALICE

Mark Randazzo set out to disprove Christianity. He was raised in it — Christian school, youth group, good parents — and in his early twenties he started asking whether an

The Song Written in the NICU | METAL FOR EMMANUEL

Dana quit music. She left her band, stopped listening to anything that wasn't of God, and walked away from the thing that had been the center of her life since she was a

Chaotic Metalcore in Mom's Basement | PIPE BOMB

Mitch records Pipe Bomb in his apartment, then drives to his mom's house and reamps the whole thing in her basement. That's where Hellhole came from. He also leads worsh