Grace Runkle Is Making Room for a Different Kind of Christian Music

Grace Runkle didn’t know she could sing until God, apparently, decided otherwise.She was a sophomore at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, helping run a worship night, when someone asked her to step up to the mic. She’d mostly stopped singing by then — years of comparing herself to more talented musicians had done their work. But she said yes, started into a song called “Re-Surrender,” and then something happened she still can’t explain.“I opened my mo