Sunday, July 17, 2005

more on sufjan stevens


Once again, I'd like to say that Sufjan Stevens is an amazing chap. (Recall that I urged you to check him out previously.) If you haven't done so, go out and buy all of his records, including his latest, Illinois. This guy seems to be a pretty profound Christian. Its especially evident in his album Seven Swans.

Here is a pertinent excerpt from an interview with Stevens at the Onion A.V. Club.

O: Also, you're Episcopalian, and growing up Episcopalian is not really the same thing as growing up, say, Southern Baptist.

SS: I wasn't actually raised Episcopalian. I go to a kind of Anglo-Catholic church now that I've been going to for the last three years, but I haven't really been raised that way. I'm definitely entrenched in the tradition now. I kind of admire it for being so traditional and sort of unchanging and unwavering in a lot of its doctrine, but also very sort of open and broad in its understanding of human nature. I like that it's kind of open to the discussion about the tensions between those two things.

O: No Episcopal youth camps in your past?

SS: I missed all that. I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.


Read the whole thing here.

2 comments:

Father Lee Nelson, SSC said...

WB -

You can use any image you want - no problem at all.

Also - Sufjan's recordings are available on iTunes.

gwb said...

Yeah. Y'all don't neglect to buy "Seven Swans", and listen especially to Vito's Ordination Song on "Michigan". Its incredible. It moved me to tears once.

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