After exiting the Christian music industry, these artists engage religion on their terms

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(RNS) — When former Christian artist Michael Gungor first hosted a new spiritual community in Los Angeles this year, worship began not with an organ blast or sermon series video promo, but with blowing bubbles.

FILE - Hundreds of CDs line the walls of the recording studio at WXAN in Ava., Ill., July 28, 2014. FILE - Toby Mac, center performs with former members of DC Talk, Michael Tait, left, and Kevin Max at the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards at Lipscomb University on Oct. 11, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. FILE - Hundreds of CDs line the walls of the recording studio at WXAN in Ava., Ill., July 28, 2014. FILE - Hundreds of CDs line the walls of the recording studio at WXAN in Ava., Ill., July 28, 2014.

For those like him who have “deconstructed” — a popular term today for the process of questioning and sometimes letting go of the teachings of one’s faith tradition — Gungor still sees a desire for ritual and for communal gathering. He recognizes the power of the collective — and aims to write non-dogmatic music for corporate, if not religious, worship.

“I was already getting critiqued at the time and being basically told you weren’t a Christian anymore,” said Knapp. “And then I was like, oh, well, I’m wondering what you guys are going to think about my sexual orientation.” Despite the Christian music industry’s restrictions, exiting the industry often means leaving behind record labels, the Christian music festival circuit and radio play and requires promoting music to a market that’s much less defined.

“I wanted to go back into the rubble of where all this was pulled down and burned down, and where I was in here with an ax before, I want to come back in with a scalpel,” he said of the album.

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