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It\u2019s amazing what Sufjan does with this interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n

These questions tell you a lot about the interviewer\u2019s shoddy understanding of Christian faith.<\/p>\n

And yet Stevens responds with such patience, and such insightful, revealing answers that it\u2019s all worth reading.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m already enthralled by his music. But I\u2019m increasingly impressed by the guy himself. It\u2019s rare to find an artist who is also so eloquent, thoughtful, an uninhibited about his faith. None of this \u201cFaith is personal and so I\u2019m not going to talk about it\u201d crap.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"