Got the chance to attend another David Bazan house show last night, it was amazing and heartfelt as usual, if a bit cramped this time. Some houses will comfortably fit 60 people, and some will just barely fit them.
Bazan spoke very openly about how he lost his faith and how his so-called breakup album with God went over very differently than he expected. Apparently, he wasn’t expected that a generation of (future) former evangelicals would welcome earnest songs about struggling to hold on to faith, and finally letting go.
Oftentimes I wonder if we’ve overly constrained the idea of what it means to be a public figure in the atheist movement. Why do we generally include circuit speakers and authors but not artists like David Bazan, Greg Graffin, and Sage Francis who reach vastly broader and more diverse audiences?
