The Definitive Ranking of Early 2000s Christian Indie Rock Bands

Starting around 2000, when most of the world was getting into the Strokes and the White Stripes, there was a short-lived but fascinating collective of indie Christian rock bands whose fanbase was limited to the church crowd and people who felt like they should go to church but usually didn’t. These bands were varying degrees of Christian—sometimes it was just assumed they were Christian because they never said anything explicitly to the contrary—but they were nevertheless embraced by campu