Joshua Leventhal

But yet sometimes when we look at the contemporary evangelical music world, we are trained to polish up our public worship in ways that our personal lives may not actually look like.

Today I'm delighted to be joined by Joshua Leventhal, an acclaimed musician and artist, American-born, Canadian-raised.

He's won a GMA for Best Album, Song of the Year, nominated by the Juno Awards, streamed over 30 million times.

He's married to a fellow creative abstract painter, Caitlin Rose Leventhal, and they are based outside of Vancouver, British Columbia.

So honesty without cynicism, lament without despair, hope without pretending.

God is good all the time, even when we can't see a way.

Joshua Leventhal, I want to thank you so much for your time, for the art that you make, for the work that you're up to.

I want to thank everybody else for tuning in for another installment of The Intersection.

The purpose of this podcast is to help you follow and share Jesus in the places you live, work, learn, and play.

Well, today I'm excited for you to hear a conversation that I had with Joshua Leventhal as he returns to the podcast to walk track by track through Tapestry Volume 1, his ambitious concept record tracing scripture from Genesis to the wilderness.

Josh and I dig into the theology, the craft, and the stories behind songs like Blessed, Cursed, Vagabond, Covenant, and Tribes, exploring how melody, key changes, and lyric choices carry the weight of the biblical narrative.

This episode's going to be somewhat unique.

But you're going to get a track-by-track walkthrough of this incredible album that I'm praying will help you.

And I know Josh's prayer is that it would help you have a deeper understanding of the biblical narrative from Genesis to the wilderness and also move your heart to know and to love God more.

And so, friends, without further ado, here is my conversation about Tepeseri Volume 1 with Joshua Leventhal.

Joshua Leventhal, a very special welcome back to the Soros podcast.

If this episode encouraged, equipped you, and you think it would be helpful, as I've already said, why don't you go ahead and share it right now, even while you're listening.

And now I'm gonna leave you with a clip from the conversation that will be released next with Joshua Leventhal, who's officially released volume one of a three-volume project called Tapisserie.

And next week we'll be digging into this new album with him, walking through track by track.

So please listen to that album, volume one of Tapisserie, before we get there.

Not even looking at the track record of, wait, have I prayed with them? Have I given them counsel? Have I humbled myself before them? Have I given example of my life? Have I done all the things that I know to do? Okay.

Then maybe I actually actively have to release you and let you go, right? That may be in a friendship.

That may be as a pastor of a church who's like, You know what? Maybe you're not supposed to stay here.

You've been here for five, 10 years and I love you.

That's pretty cool.

Well, Hey man, again, it's been an honor to have you here.

We so appreciate our friendship, but also so appreciate what you're doing and what God's doing through you, man.

So thanks again.