Regular readers of this blog may have been wondering where I’ve been the last few months. Everyone else probably didn’t notice or care. Well, here’s the deal. My contract with Beliefnet ended in October, and you may have caught on that over the last year I’ve become a bit burned out covering Christian music. So…

Season 3 American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino has been hospitalized in North Carolina after an apparent overdose of a combination of “aspirin and sleep aid”, according to news reports. It’s not clear if the overdose was a suicide attempt or an accidental overdose. Barrino’s representative told FoxNews’s Pop Tarts that the singer has been “totally…

Back in June 2008, when I first started blogging about Christian music here at Beliefnet, I did a post about Katy Perry and how she’d once released a Christian album under the name Katy Hudson. It was one of those stories that I thought was interesting and hoped would spur some discussion about Christian music,…

For the first time in several months, I’m not watching American Idol. And I have to confess that it’s nice to have my Tuesday evening back. Not that there’s anything else on I want to watch … but I digress. For those of you in Idol withdrawal, Gospel Soundcheck reader and pal Brittany Keener, who…

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