Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Alex Warren are among popular artists who have dominated airwaves with vaguely religious music.

What’s happening at places like Praise Break is less about music idolatry and more about community — the very relational advantage my old pastor friend was talking about.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches.

After a spiritual awakening in the 1960s, she dedicated herself to the Catholic Church and began composing sacred music largely ignored by the classical world.