New Yorker Online Discusses Article On Stine

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 11th, 2004

We told you last week about a New Yorker article on Brad Stine. Well, the online version of the magazine also posted a discussion between the article’s author, Adam Green, and the New Yorker’s Matt Dellinger:

I think that much of his religion may be about his troubled relationship with his father, and trying to reconnect with him. This is prominent in the language of Christianity. It’s a patriarchal language, and there seems to be a good deal of effort within the Evangelical Christian movement to restore the father as the head of the family. That’s what the Promise Keepers is all about, how to make sure a man takes his proper place as the head of the family, which means restoring his and his own family’s relationship with the ultimate father, the heavenly father, with God, who is very much seen as a father figure. I don’t want to be an armchair psychologist, but I think that Stine’s performance is certainly connected to the desire to please his father, who moved the family to California to try to pursue a career in singing. There’s a sense of his fulfilling his father’s dreams and his father’s destiny as well.

Fascinating stuff… read the rest here.

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