According to The Boston Globe’s Dec. 3, 2006, article Christian and gospel music is the one growing music category; sales in 2007 were up 11.6 percent. That popularity is recognized at conferences and music award ceremonies, where Christian rap or hiphop is increasingly included as a category.

Joseph Gelfer is an adjunct research associate in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University in Australia and editor of the anthology 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse (2011).

Read a May 13, 2013 Christianity Today article that lists and explores artists shaping the Christian hiphop movement.

Read a June 18, 2013 Christianity Today interview with Christian hiphop artist Daniel White and his understanding of “theomusicology.”

Read a May 30, 2013 Christianity Today article about the “new phase” that Christian hiphop is supposedly to be moving into.

Stephen C. Meyers is president of the Institute for Biblical and Scientific Studies and a critic of Harold Camping.

Gary DeMar is on the staff of the American Vision, a group that seeks “to restore America to its biblical foundation.” He is a biblical literalist but takes issue with those who predict a specific date for the Second Coming of Jesus and the end of the world.

The Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago surveyed 1,590 African-Americans, whites and Latinos aged 15 to 25 in several Midwest cities on subjects including rap music, premarital sex, politics and the “color-blind” society. The results included: 58 percent of black youth listen to rap music daily, compared with 45 percent of Latinos and 23 percent of […]

Todd Strandberg is executive director of RaptureReady.com, which publishes the Rapture Index.