EP: 428 Angels and Airwaves with Matt Maher *members only trailer

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Matt Maher steps into the BlurryCon 3 spotlight and connects dots most people never see. The Grammy-nominated artist behind "Lord I Need You" reveals the story behind his fascinating life and the blurry thread running through it all. From a charismatic grandmother in Newfoundland who prayed in tongues and warned him about fairies to holding a stone from the cave of St. Michael the Archangel and watching a room flood with unexplainable white light. Matt connects creativity, consecrated land, and the thin veil between heaven and earth. Matt walks through the story of writing his song "Only Good Will Grow" on his first night in a house next to Johnny Cash's old Hendersonville property. Cash told a grieving Roy Orbison that only good would grow on that land. When the families lost ownership, everything died. When a Catholic priest came and blessed the ground, everything came back. Matt talks about how Diana Pasulka's research confirmed what he always felt as a songwriter. Songs arrive like downloads from somewhere beyond the veil. He lands on the connection between sound and light on the same spectrum and delivers a line that will stay with you. When God said, "Let there be light," the Logos was moving so fast that it turned into the visible spectrum. A sunset is a song. He talks about quantum retrocausality, how forgiveness might not be a metaphor, and the blood of Jesus might actually move backward through time. Matt makes a compelling case that the Christian life was always meant to be blurry and that wonder is not the enemy of responsibility. Want to listen to this episode and a catalog of more than 100+ other members-only episodes? Check out the vibrant community, extra episodes, and amazing perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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