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TobyMac ‘Open’ to Reuniting With Former Bandmate-Turned-Atheist Kevin Max for New DC Talk Album

Christian artist TobyMac (real name Toby McKeehan) has said that he’s open about the possibility of reuniting with his former bandmates for a new DC Talk album, despite one of the members now being a pro-LGBTQ, pro-choice pagan.

Last year ex-‘Jesus Freak’ Kevin Max announced on social media that he has been “deconstructing” his faith for years, for all intents and purposes revealing himself to have become a progressive pagan who has renounced orthodox Christianity and now holds to some weird form of belief in the “Universal Christ”. He would later go all in for abortion rights and tweet out support for his gay daughter, as well for Pride Month. Their other bandmate, Michael Tait, has been the lead singer of the Christian group Newsboys since 2009.

After releasing five albums between 1989 and 1998, including the 1995 banger Jesus Freak, the band announced in 2000 that they were taking a break to pursue individual projects. They’ve come together for a few shows since going on hiatus, notably some cruise line reunion shows in 2017 and 2019, but nothing since Max came out as an ex-vangelical in 2021.

Now, in a new interview, when pressed over whether or not DC Talk would ever get back together to launch a new full-length DC Talk studio album, McKeehan told Billboard that he was not opposed to the prospect and that it’s not a “closed door.”

“I don’t know. Sometimes I’ll write a song that sounds more like DC Talk than it sounds like me and I’ll just kind of hold it. So there are a few of those sitting there. Our friend Ryan Tedder sent us a song that he felt like sounded like DC Talk, which we still have sitting there — and it’s amazing, because he wrote it. I don’t know the answer to that [reunion] question. I know that I’m not opposed to it; obviously I asked Michael and Kevin to be on this song, so it’s not a closed door for me.”

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TobyMac New Song Reunites DC Talk Despite Kevin Max Renouncing Christianity

Toby Mac has released a new album, Life after Death, his first since his 21-year-old son Truett, who for years battled substance abuse, passed away from an accidental drug overdose of fentanyl and amphetamines in early 2020.

TobyMac once said of the opportunity to attract secular fans and have his music appeal to larger, mainstream audiences, “If I ever cross over, I’m taking the cross over,” and this album is no different, with most songs having a call out or references to his faith and trust in God. 

The album, written as a cathartic release for the pain he experienced at his son’s passing, has multiple tracks lamenting his loss and his belief that his son is in heaven now. In Rest he sings, “Rest, take a breath/ Push aside the noise and feel the air inside your chest/ Blessed, my child, you’re blessed/ Fall into the arms of God and rest your weary head.” In The Goodness he likewise enjoins, “Everywhere that I go/ You keep showin’ up/ Lord, You make me wanna shout it, oh/ You’re the goodness in my life.” In Faithfully, he shares, “I may never be the same man/ But I’m a man who still believes/ When I cried out to You, JesusYou were there faithfully.”

Typically viewed as a Contemporary Christian Musician who produces ‘Christian albums, some fans are up in arms over the singer and record producer reuniting with his old DC Talk bandmates for the song Space, on account that the song features former bandmate Kevin Max, who has completely abandoned the faith and is now a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ atheist.

The song reads:

Space.
Tony Mac Ft. Michael Tait, Kevin Max

I’ve replayed it like a thousand times, I rewind it in my head
I can tell you that I lost my mind, or what I should’ve done instead
‘Cause the way that I felt when we parted ways
Got me all in my head, got me countin’ the days
Got me hopin’, got me prayin’
You are in my heart

But what do we do with this space
What do we do with this space between us
How can we start to erase
How can we start to erase this space between us

Would you step across a party line?
Would you walk into my cold cell?
Can you see me in a different light?
Would you meet me at the well?

‘Cause the way that I feel when you look my way
Got me all in my head, got me starting to think
Is it too far? Are we too scarred?
Yeah the heart is there, but what do we do with this space

CHORUS

I got nothing but love for you
(Nothing but my love for you)
And I know you feel the same way too
But this space, what do we do with this space between us

What do we do with this space
This space

It keeps no record, it keeps no record of wrong
It keeps no record, record, record

Love keeps no record
Love keeps no record
Love keeps no record of wrong
Love keeps no record
We’re never too far gone

About the inclusion of Max, he told Billboard:

“The second I wrote the first lines [of ‘Space,’] it was definitely something I wanted to do with DC Talk. It feels very personal because it is. I wrote it about friends that struggle and friends that feel warm toward each other, but don’t know what to do with the space that’s come between them. I climbed a mountain with those two brothers. Those are my dear friends, and they always will be. We experienced things together that I’ll never experience with another person — so I wanted to honor that. I was so glad that they both agreed to be on it, and so grateful that they would honor what we did, and the friendships that remain.”

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DC Talk’s Kevin Max Goes ALL-IN For Abortion Rights

Last year, Ex-‘Jesus Freak’ Kevin Max announced on social media that he considers himself to be an “exvangelical” and that he has been “deconstructing” his faith for years, for all intents and purposes revealing himself to have become a progressive pagan who has renounced orthodox Christianity and now holds to some weird form of belief in the “Universal Christ”.

Max, 53, who is best known as one-third of the trio DC Talk, has spent the last year taking potshots at “narrow-minded-judgmental evangelicals” while lauding his leftist views.

Despite being completely apostate, Max sorta/ kinda insisted that he was “pro-life with exceptions” – which was basically the last remaining shred of morality left in him.

He’s not torn anymore. That too seems to have to been gone by the wayside, after writing out on Instagram:

These Tweets were liked by a few people that we know, such as the apostate Derek Webb, formerly of Caedmon’s Call, and Laura Hoopes, the (she/her) wife of Matt Hoopes, the founder of Relient K who has recently come out as full LGBTQ and in which the band itself has come out as super-gay.

Of course, the whole point is that the body inside the woman’s body is not her body. Given how much he has deconstructed over the years, in the process of turning his mind over to Satan, it’s clear his mind is darkened and he hates the image of God- making the unborn a natural casualty of his cruelty.

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DC Talk’s Kevin Max Renounces His Faith, Promotes ‘Universal Christ’

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 1 John 2:19

Ex-‘Jesus Freak’ Kevin Max has announced on social media that he considers himself to be an “exvangelical” and that that he has been “deconstructing” his faith for years, for all intents and purposes revealing himself to have become a progressive pagan who has renounced orthodox Christianity and now holds to some weird form of belief in the “Universal Christ”.

Max, 53, who is best known as one-third of the trio DC Talk, has spent the last year taking potshots at “narrow minded-judgmental evangelicals” and got the ball rolling to an even greater degree on Twitter when he said:

He followed it up with a few more points of clarification, writing:

Lest there was any doubt, the singer, whose Twitter bio describes himself as a “Leftist” Mystic” and “Liberal”, also came out as Pro-LGBTQIA and in a later tweet came out as pro-choice (“Prolife with exceptions”)

He further posted this song lyric from a recent album, explaining that it encapsulates where is he is right now spiritually. He says he still “believes in Jesus” but it’s pretty evident it’s a deity of his own making, according to the lusts of his flesh, with his talk of the “glowing universal Christ.’

In an interview with Gabriel Jones, Kevin also explains that he no longer believes that the bible is literal or accurate or true, telling him:

“I believe in a God of the universe, and I believe that He can hear me. And that, in itself, is just plain kind of crazy. But if I believe that, then I truly believe that He cares about my progression and asking questions and wanting to know what is real and what isn’t real…I don’t think the God that I believe in is going to just all of a sudden ignore me because I don’t believe every single thing that’s written down somewhere.”

Now is about as good a time as any to pray that in His providence, God saves him.