Josiah Queen Is Making Old Language Feel Young Again
Dusty Bibles, prodigals and demons aren't exactly conventional pop vocabulary. That's precisely the point.
The Prodigal
Contemporary Christian
The Prodigal
Josiah Queen
The oldest return story in the canon, told without hurrying the road home.
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Behind “Dusty Bibles”
Josiah Queen — an object doing the work a slogan usually does.
Worship After the Fire
The biggest songs of faith are not always songs of certainty. Sometimes they are records of endurance.
The Long Road Back
Josiah Queen's “The Prodigal” spends its runtime on the road rather than at the door.