Songs for the People Who Aren't Sure They Believe Anymore

If you are reading this, you are probably standing in a doorway.

Not all the way in. Not all the way out. You can still see the candles from where you’re standing, and you remember what it felt like to believe they were lit for you — but you’re not sure anymore, and you’ve stopped pretending you are.

This is music for doubt and faith, written for that doorway specifically. Not the worship song that asks you to raise your hands and mean it. Not the deconstruction anthem that asks you to burn it all down and feel free. Something quieter, and more honest than either: a confessional folk record for people who lost the certainty but kept the longing.

I think there are more of us in that doorway than anyone wants to admit. The world before us was full of small holy rooms, and the world we’re walking through now has not bothered to take them down. They’re still here. The roofs are gone. The pews are still in their rows like nobody told them.

So these are liturgical folk songs in the loosest, most stubborn sense — small devotions for people who aren’t sure they believe anymore but can’t stop lighting the candle. If that’s you, I wrote these for you. Stay a while. There’s no test at the door.

If you want the first one — an unreleased song and a one-page liner note — it’s the First Liturgy, and it’s free. Tell me where to send it.