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On Sunday (May 17), songwriter and former evangelical worship leader Michael Gungor took to social media to share that he spent the morning singing in a church choir near his home in Pasadena, California.
Gungor, who rose to fame in the early 2010s with his band’s award-winning album and title track “Beautiful Things,” publicly deconverted from Christianity some years ago. Nevertheless, since that time, Gungor has expressed continued interest in worship and worship music, albeit defined by his new set of beliefs.
“When I say ‘worship,’ I’m not talking about the shamey, homage-paying to some other being somewhere else,” Gungor said in 2021, “but the experience of love and connection that can happen when people get together and sing to their Source.”
In 2023, Gungor revealed that he was searching for a church to attend that would “have enough spaciousness to allow someone like me, who doesn’t necessarily believe in the exclusivity of any one religion but is open to God everywhere.”
Continued below.
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Gungor, who rose to fame in the early 2010s with his band’s award-winning album and title track “Beautiful Things,” publicly deconverted from Christianity some years ago. Nevertheless, since that time, Gungor has expressed continued interest in worship and worship music, albeit defined by his new set of beliefs.
“When I say ‘worship,’ I’m not talking about the shamey, homage-paying to some other being somewhere else,” Gungor said in 2021, “but the experience of love and connection that can happen when people get together and sing to their Source.”
In 2023, Gungor revealed that he was searching for a church to attend that would “have enough spaciousness to allow someone like me, who doesn’t necessarily believe in the exclusivity of any one religion but is open to God everywhere.”
Continued below.
‘I Love Normal, Imperfect People’—Michael Gungor Joins Church Choir Despite Belief That ‘The Christian Empire Is Essentially Anti-Christ’
Songwriter and former evangelical worship leader Michael Gungor shared that he spent Sunday morning singing in a church choir.
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