Author: Keziah Mendez

By Keziah Mendez — John James was the frontman for the Newsboys for 12 years, but success exposed the cracks in his life that came from a childhood of rejection under an alcoholic father. He fell into flirting online, then unfaithfulness and ultimately he was forced out of the band. “My whole sense of value, of identity was totally wrapped up in who I was with the Newsboys,” he says “and that meant more to me than my marriage. As long as I was with the Newsboys, I’m somebody, I have a purpose, I have a future, I have a…