it’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since i released mockingbird. i wrote those songs because i needed to talk openly about politics, war, poverty and the way faith and power intertwine.
i even gave the record away for free for a while to start a wider conversation about those issues. two decades on, the way churches and governments intersect and the behavior of people of faith in public life feel more critical than ever to examine.
to mark the anniversary i’m revisiting these songs with a one-night-only acoustic livestream performance on wednesday, november 12 and doing a long-awaited repressing of the album on vinyl, along with some other merch to mark the occasion. i hope this moment invites us to reflect on how far we’ve come—and how much more conversation and work lies ahead.
