What could have been the takedown of a real-life faith-healing scandal becomes instead an unlikely conversion story in 1992’s Leap of Faith.

Tyler Childers’s newest album builds up a joyful noise with multiple versions of old classic hymns, original songs, and the songwriter’s own hillbilly universalist perspective.

If God loves this physical, here-and-now world and is continually at work renewing and transforming it, we should, too.

Once again, the Fare Forward editors offer you the (unexpected) favorites we discovered during the year past. If you stumble across them too, we recommend picking them up!