-The mother of contemporary Christian music- - Excerpt from -The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music-, Sept. 2002

-She is Conservative Christianity's worst nightmare: a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, God-fearing lesbian Christian.- - Christian Century Magazine

At just 16, Marsha Carter (now Stevens-Pino) shared her newly born-again Christianity with a song that went on to become one of the most widely recognized, and translated hymns in Christian circles: -For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water)-. Some historians have said it was the first song to be called...