Song Stories: Introduction and lion of rock
Intro/Lion of RockMichael: One of my favorite sounds is that swell of an orchestra tuning itself before a performance. As the individual instruments ring out in their own mildly improvised chaos, a...
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Michael:This song continues the album’s theme so far of one unified existence. Human beings are part of the fabric of reality. We give the universe eyes and prefrontal cortexes to see itself with. Not...
View ArticleSong Stories: Am I
At the end of every question is a question mark. As any parent of a toddler can attest to, there is no question that can be answered all the way down to the bottom."Why is the sky blue?”“Because the...
View ArticleSong Stories: Vapor
(Michael)This song took me over two years to write. For years, doubt was a significant part of my life and my art. While I was able to manage it most of the time, there were times when it was crippling...
View ArticleLast Days in the Desert
Hey everybody, if you saw us on tour this spring, you probably saw that our tour was sponsored by a film by Rodrigo Garcia called ‘Last Days in the Desert.’ The film stars Ewan McGregor, who plays...
View ArticleSong Stories: Hurricane
(Lisa)Our oldest loves this book called “Kiki and Coco in Paris,” a book about a girl and her doll exploring the sites of the ever lovely city of Paris. I keep telling my oldest how one day, if...
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Shake
Gungor has made a lot of serious music. We have searched and bared our souls and out of this have comes songs and stories of faith and doubt, joy and pain, life and death. And with all of that...
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Article 2
As you may have seen, the final record of the One Wild Life trilogy is releasing on Sept. 30! One of the things we are doing leading up to Sept. 30 is releasing a series of videos—one song from each...
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MOMENT ONE
First moments, the merging of two cells into one, multiplying—two, four, six, eight—rapidly growing and forming the information that will decide my hair, eyes, teeth, hands, my genetic DNA. Everything...
View ArticleVoting For Hillary Is Not Voting for Abortion
Let me begin with a disclaimer. I hate adding to the noise of this election cycle. Everybody’s talking about it and everybody’s mad. A huge part of me would prefer to just stay out of it, but I think...
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GUNGOR ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS TOUR
After releasing the trilogy of albums for the One Wild Life series, we've decided to step out of the studio and get to know the people who have connected so deeply with our music over the last year....
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Today is a day for mourning. Regardless of which side you stand on politically, the reality is that America just elected a man who pledged to discriminate against an entire people group and kick all of...
View ArticleOne Wild Life: Soul
"Say it with me class, 'I am a spirit. I have a soul, and I live in a body.’"Christian school taught me that the essence of my personhood was a disembodied spirit-man that was (unfortunately) attached...
View ArticleWhy I stopped trying to 'spread God's fame'
It’s Sunday morning, and I’m sitting in the Houston airport thinking about how many people are gathered right now in this city to worship. And I’m wondering what it is that we all think we are doing.I...
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Lyric Art Contest Winners
The art that you guys created for the Lyric Art Contest was so incredible, we couldn't pick just one. So we chose 3 winners. Congratulations to @davinsart, @lydiaekeroth_ and @hayleybgray!
View ArticleMarch On
Along with millions of people around the world, I marched with and for my girls this weekend. I marched because women are still not always treated equally in our country, and I believe they should be....
View ArticleJoin me on a spiritual retreat
I embarked on my first spiritual retreat almost 7 years ago, and it changed my life. Since then, I’ve continued to periodically go on retreats, and I can honestly say that those small windows of...
View ArticleWAKING UP
We lie in bed, covers tucked up tight. Light streams through the window and sounds call to us from the outside but we shut our eyes, just want to sleep a little longer, don’t wake me, it isn’t time...
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WHO WE ARE
"Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden...
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ON EARTH - VOL. 1
On Earth - Vol. 1 [New instrumental album from Michael Gungor & Tyler Chester] Hey everybody, I just wanted to let you know about a new instrumental record that we released this week! My friend...
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