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COVER FEATURE
ALL SONS & DAUGHTERS
POETS & SAINTS
“We believe God is transcendent in His nature… so He takes the individual ideas burst into a thousand Technicolor possibilities.
something that is ancient and plants it in the present to wake us Within months, David, Leslie, their spouses, Jamie and his family, a film
up.” crew and others ventured to Europe to trace the lives of C.S. Lewis,
John Newton, Saint Thérèse, Saint Francis, William Cowper, Saint
Shhh. Come in a little closer. Crack open an ancient door and give ear Augustine and George MacDonald, mining for undiscovered gems,
to the songs and hymns of ages past, words upon which the faith was something God could use to connect these individuals to modern
built. For in these truths lie the rub, the crux of history past, present and believers. The result was far more than the Journey team could ever
future: that God never changes, but God changes everything. His Spirit have imagined.
moves among those who seek Him—forged in fires of suffering and
brokenness—poets and saints continually redeemed and restored by Produced by Chad Copelin (Crowder, Gungor) and mixed by Shane
His grace. Wilson (Brandon Heath, Vertical Church Band) and Sean Moffitt
(Newsboys, Jordan Feliz), the Poets & Saints album does what few
Set for release this September in South Africa & globally, All Sons & modern worship projects even attempt—reimagining ancient-future
Daughters’ fourth full-length album, Poets & Saints takes you on an truths that have shaped generations of God-chasers.
epic journey into the lives and storiesof a handful of Christ-followers
God used to wake up the world. “These songs and stories stirred up all kinds of questions” says Jamie
who crafted the Poets & Saints book (not available in SA) to be a
What began as a simple study of these two groups of people—poets unique blend of biography, travel memoir and spiritual insight, taking
(writers) and saints—soon morphed into a barrage of ‘What ifs.’ All readers from a pub in Oxford to a cathedral in the Italian hills and
Sons & Daughters’ Leslie Jordan and David Leonard, who are based beyond. “One of the most beautiful ways to know God better is to
at Franklin, Tennessee’s Journey Church, spoke to their pastor, Jamie learn from those who served Him in other times and cultures… these
George, about the idea. Unbeknownst to them, Jamie had been consid- saints and writers are not abstract, hopeful representations of what
ering a teaching series on church history. When the discussion began, we should be,” he says. “They were actually really broken people who
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