Why The Odyssey?


I didn’t set out to make an album.

I set out to work through some difficult questions. Questions about where God goes when things fall apart. About how grace can feel both absent and like absence. About whether truth really sets us free—or just sits there, holding us, and waiting for us to change.

Somewhere along the way, those questions started feeling rhythmic. I’m not sure I could say the rhythms felt like music. They certainly weren’t clean, they weren’t orderly. But music and rhythm shaped by distortion, by minor and unresolved chords. Because that’s how it felt to move through those questions: uneven, raw, unresolved.

I called it The Odyssey because that’s what it became—a journey. And “theodicy” (see what I did there??) is a central theme: if God is good, why does suffering exist? And even that essential question wasn’t enough. I needed to name it, to sing it, to scream it, and maybe even to pray it… and somehow move through it.

This is a six-song EP, and each track carries its own piece of that arc:

  • Where Are You? begins with the cry for God in the middle of disaster
  • Holy Spirit (Breathe on Me) reimagines an old hymn as a plea for transformation—a Pentecost prayer of surrender and fire
  • Searchin’ groans with theological dissonance, drawing from the Prodigal story in all its discomfort
  • Give Me Jesus strips everything down to a vulnerable whisper
  • Truth exposes what happens when we finally stop avoiding it
  • And Amazing Grace—reimagined—doesn’t wrap things up so much as it opens them back up, wider than before

You won’t find tight doctrinal answers here. What you will find is honesty. And to me, that’s better than doctrine. I hope you’ll find presence. Maybe you’ll even find the kind of grace that echoes in distortion.

For the sake of transparency, I didn’t make this to be impressive. I made this to be faithful—to the journey, to the ache, to the grace I’ve encountered even when I didn’t deserve it, didn’t trust it, didn’t feel it.

And now, it’s yours.

The Odyssey is available to pre-add now and will release everywhere on June 1. You can follow the link below to find it on your preferred platform. I hope you’ll listen. I hope you’ll stay with it through the hard parts. And I hope—maybe—it meets you somewhere honest.


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