I guess, to answer your question, my father was a minister, Brian's was a pentecostal pastor, we all have roots that go deep into Christianity. I personally believe that Christianity is true. I don't believe that any kind of real spiritual experience comes easily. I think the eternal world is unseen, primarily, and is therefore full of mystery, and requires a lot of thought and effort on my part and something that I'm very, very interested in. As far as occasionally, people wonder why we're playing at a festival like this, since we're not overtly Christian in the symbolism that we surround ourselves with I can say that the primary driving force for me behind my being a band member is to explore what it means to be an artist.
Artists sometimes are so busy with their own art that they miss other people's art.
It's much more important for I the listener to tell you what I get from the song than it is for you to explain it to me. And something really resonated with me about that. Sometimes I want to speak specifically about what we're writing, but we're usually more interested with the listener coming up with their own assessments. All good art requires effort on the part of the listener it requires repeated attempts at building a relationship with the work of art that they're dealing with. It was a meditation off of two books, A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, and A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken.