“Sufjan Stevens” Articles

Many of our most beloved secular and sacred carols have sorrowful connotations intrinsically wrapped up inside them.

Our team highlights their favorite music and podcasts from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our staff writers offer recommendations for feeling all the feels during the pandemic with emotional support artifacts.

Sufjan Stevens invites us to raise the mirror this Christmas and laugh to ourselves in all our absurdity: “I’m the Christmas unicorn . . . you’re the Christmas unicorn.”

A List of Our Favorite Things from 2015, from #10 to #6.

Sufjan Stevens’s obscure reference to Manelich is a key element in understanding how he sees his relationship with his mother Carrie.

Through the music of St. Vincent and Sufjan Stevens, we might also come to appreciate our own parents—their successes, their failures, their sacrifices, their scars.

You get the impression Stevens would like to stick his finger in Paul’s chest and tell him exactly where death’s sting is.

“There are times when I think that an artist’s spiritual beliefs should be considered secondary to the quality of their art.”

I’m not sure it’s helpful to use tragedies like Sandy Hook as examples of what happens when a country abandons God.

“By turns silly and serious, reverent and irreverent, traditional and experimental, Sufjan’s Christmas music handily transcends that schmaltz that so often passes for Christmas music these days.”

“They aren’t afraid of making music that exists entirely outside the context of Sunday mornings—even music that has appealed to non-Christian music fans.”