Another Belated Quote: Sufjan Stevens

From an interview with Sufjan Stevens in issue 41 (July 2006) of The Word magazine by Graeme Thomson:

Aside from the 50 States Project, the other aspect of Stevens and his music that has been much discussed is his devout Christian faith. He is understandably reluctant to talk about it in too much depth, having discovered it motivates a lot of questions that he finds odd and unanswerable. His music certain expresses a certain euphoria and wonder at the mysteries of the world, yet you would struggle to define it as specifially religious. Stevens’s own take on it is that “if you believe in an omnipotent God, you yield yourself to that God, and of course everything you do is about that relationship. My songs are always about that, but they’re also about aliens from outer space and serial killers and pre-marital sex and all these other things that make up the world we live in. To me, it’s all about life and life is all about God.”

Here is someone with a whole-life view of faith.

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