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Christian art used to be ambitious, cathedrals that took centuries to build, church

ceilings that took years to paint, sprawling oratorio, seeking to capture the majesty of

Armasaya, but it's rare that a Christian artist impresses me today. However, the artistic

ambition of Christian folk rock duo, poor Bishop Hooper, does impress me. I'm Brett McCracken,

arts and culture editor at the gospel coalition, and I love getting to tell stories of Christians

who create excellent art. The story of poor Bishop Hooper is one I'm excited to share with you in

this episode. If you watch TGC's Advent Concert last December, you might remember poor Bishop

Hooper as the band that performed the wildly creative musical rendition of Matthew's genealogy.

Poor Bishop Hooper is Jesse and Leah Roberts. I married a couple with three kids who share a

house in Kansas City with four art students. In 2020, poor Bishop Hooper launched their ambitious

every song project in which they record songs inspired by each of the solter's 150 songs,

released one per week in order for almost three years. You heard that right. All 150 songs released

one per week for three years. That's the artistic ambition I'm talking about.

Here's a clip from the project's first song, song one, released the first week of January 2020.

As lovers of music making and lovers of God's word, Jesse and Leah had kicked around the idea

for a project like every song for years, but it's scope intimidated them. Then in July of 2019,

they felt clear prompting from God to launch the project in January 2020. Here's how Jesse describes

that moment. We're going to run out of ideas. They're all going to sound the same. There's no

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