This is one of the better music videos I’ve seen...

This is one of the better music videos I’ve seen in a long time. It was so good in fact, Kim burned the granola she was making while watching it.

I need to listen to it and watch it a couple more times but from what I understand, the singer was raised in a Christian home but has since struggled with the existence of God, truth, and meaning. This song seems loaded with that sentiment. The singer, Andy Hull, asks a series of questions throughout the song but they don’t seem to be leading him to any answers. In the California volume of the Religion by Region series, Wade Clark Roof points out a characteristic of American religion that I think is on display here. He says that many people have a ‘remembered religion’; that they can tell you more about the religion of their upbringing or of what their parents believe than what they actually believe.

many people in the region can talk about their familiy’s religious history or even their own religious past better than they can affirm what they themselves actually believe in the present moment. This does not mean they have no beliefs but instead that their beliefs and doubts, convictions and curiosities are all coupled together. Living faith and spirituality in a fluid encironment is very much like that - at times confusing and complicated, yet at other times quite centered and convincing.

I will agree with Andy on two of his statements though. The truth cannot be fractioned and the truth cannot be fashion.

HT: Jesse Bryan