Today’s Music: Give Me That Old Time Religion

Christian music is big business now. “Sales of praise and worship albums have doubled since 2000, to about 12 million in 2003. While music sales over all slumped last year, including Christian music in general, worship music was up 5 percent. A series of CD’s marketed on television by Time-Life, “Songs 4 Worship,” has drawn a million subscribers and sold about 8 million CD’s since 2000.”