Alex Sosler is assistant professor of bible and ministry at Montreat College and assisting priest at Redeemer Anglican Church in Asheville, NC.

Not a lot of music makes me want to be a better human being. The Avett Brothers do, without moralistic nattering, but rather by being outrageously fun. These essays will help you savor the songs you stomp along to.

• ForewordJames K.A. SmithIntroductionAlex Sosler1. May It Flourish: The Good Life According to the Avett Brothers Jeffrey Tabone2. The Avett Brothers and the Interior LifeGayle Doornbos3. Vanity or Virtue: What do You See in the Fire? The Explicit and Implicit Ethics of the Avett BrothersBrandon K. Watson4. The Empathetic Imagination of the Avett Brothers: A Theological Investigation of Music, Emotion, and Christian PracticeJennifer Allen Craft5. From Boatloads of Shame to Closer than Together: Scott and Seth Avett as Models of Confession and ReunificationAustin Rehbein6. Homesickness and a Hunger for the Higher in the Avett Brothers’ JourneyCasey S. Lute7. Reimaging God’s Agency in the Neighborhood: What the Church Might Learn from the Avett Brothers’ Love of Place and StoryAustin Ashenbrenner8. Me and God Don’t Need a Middleman: A Richer Understanding of the NonesJeffery Porter9. Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise: The Avett Brothers and the Experience of Those

Alex Sosler is assistant professor of bible and ministry at Montreat College and assisting priest at Redeemer Anglican Church in Asheville, NC.

Not a lot of music makes me want to be a better human being. The Avett Brothers do, without moralistic nattering, but rather by being outrageously fun. These essays will help you savor the songs you stomp along to.

• ForewordJames K.A. SmithIntroductionAlex Sosler1. May It Flourish: The Good Life According to the Avett Brothers Jeffrey Tabone2. The Avett Brothers and the Interior LifeGayle Doornbos3. Vanity or Virtue: What do You See in the Fire? The Explicit and Implicit Ethics of the Avett BrothersBrandon K. Watson4. The Empathetic Imagination of the Avett Brothers: A Theological Investigation of Music, Emotion, and Christian PracticeJennifer Allen Craft5. From Boatloads of Shame to Closer than Together: Scott and Seth Avett as Models of Confession and ReunificationAustin Rehbein6. Homesickness and a Hunger for the Higher in the Avett Brothers’ JourneyCasey S. Lute7. Reimaging God’s Agency in the Neighborhood: What the Church Might Learn from the Avett Brothers’ Love of Place and StoryAustin Ashenbrenner8. Me and God Don’t Need a Middleman: A Richer Understanding of the NonesJeffery Porter9. Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise: The Avett Brothers and the Experience of Those