Won’t someone please tell me the story
Of sinners ransomed from the fire?
I still have never seen you
And some days I don’t love you at all.

So goes the chorus from Pedro the Lion’s “The Secret of the Easy Yoke”, the significance of which is two-fold:

1. Glen Smallman and I (Andrew Faris) became friends through a mutual friend, but we became good friends in part through our shared interest in music.  Near the top of said shared interest sits David Bazan/Pedro the Lion.  Glen wins: I’ve seen Bazan live 5 times to Glen’s 10 or so.  Plus Glen looks like him.

So we figured since we’re starting a blog together, it might as well be named after a mutual interest.

Speaking of Glen, hi, I’m Glen.

2. The premise of the song Andrew mentioned above is an honest quest to find God. It’s an honest desire to hear and know practically, actually, the kind of redemption spoken that’s been revealed in Scripture. Not merely settle for the kitch or obligation of religion, but to take part in a story which the God who wrote the Universe into being is telling.

For those who know David Bazan, he’s of course recently parted ways with Christendom (you should ask Andrew about the short conversation he had with him about it). We think that the sentiment of the honest search, which is what Bazan has described Secret of the Easy Yoke as in interviews since, is right and good. And we hope such a search will lead him back to these same conclusions.

In any case this blog will be dedicated to life lived as part of this Story.  Though dedicated to the Story, our hope is to have a lot of ranging an varied topics in between; music, culture, theology, art, stories, who and what Andrew is text messaging, and cream-of-the crop of Internet meme. But our goal with this site, as is with our lives, is to honor Christ by telling others of the story. A story, not of duty, but of sinners ransomed from the fire; of redemption, forgiveness and hope.

Note above the “About” links at the top for more information about Andrew and Glen. Thanks for checking it out and we hope you enjoy what you find on here.

Peace. Be still.