'The Shadow of the Cross"


I've always wanted to release some of my more personal "coming of age in a strict religious background" songs, and this season I am finally taking the opportunity to do it. I am hoping that I can put together an EP/Album of all my similar songs and release by Good Friday, but we'll see.

“The Shadow of the Cross” is an amalgamation of my stories of growing up in deeply conservative rural churches while quietly carrying truths I knew would always stand in tension with strict doctrines and tightly held traditions. (Here's a YouTube link, but you can find it anywhere and everywhere you stream music.)


 

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