Jennifer Knapp's 'Facing the Music: My Story' Book Chronicles Coming to Terms with Being a Gay Christian in Music

Jennifer Knapp

Former Christian artist Jennifer Knapp will be releasing a book later this month entitled 'Facing the Music: My Story', and it will detail her life as an artist and her coming to terms with being gay.

She will also be releasing a new album called Set Me Free, and it will be straying from her Christian roots a bit. "Only one song is remotely in the direction of the conversation of my faith," she told the Tennessean.

With her book, Knapp is hoping to shed some light on the treatment of individuals who identify as Christian and homosexual. Since "coming out" in 2010 she has been largely shunned by the Christian world.

"By coming back to music and coming out, I've had the chance to be part of a movement to end religion-endorsed discrimination, marginalization and judgment against LGBT people and their allies," an excerpt from Knapp's book reads.

The book's site reads Knapp has become "an advocate for LGBT issues in the church" and her book shares "of her troubled childhood, the love of music that pulled her through, her dramatic conversion to Christianity, her rise to stardom, her abrupt departure from Christian Contemporary Music, her years of trying to come to terms with her sexual orientation, and her return to music."

The successful artist sold over one million records in the late '90s and early 2000s, and stunned the Christian music world with her proclamation. Her announcement came off the heels of a prolonged hiatus. She also admitted she had been in a homosexual relationship since 2002.

Knapp was adamant about not becoming a fixture for "Gay Christianity." "I'm in no way capable of leading a charge for some kind of activist movement," Knapp told Christianity Today in 2010.