Light Wilder was born out of my own journey of faith. After years of wrestling through some deeply painful and traumatic experiences, I found myself questioning much of what I thought I understood about God. Those questions led me deeper into Scripture, history, and the early Christian understanding of God. What began as a search for answers gradually became something more. I wasn’t just rethinking what I believed. I was discovering new ways of seeing God, faith, and the larger story of humanity.

Eventually, that journey inspired me to begin creating an interactive curriculum for my children and anyone else interested in exploring these ideas. Music became another way to tell that story, giving expression to things that aren’t always easy to explain with words alone. Light Wilder grew out of that process.

The name Light Wilder reflects both the light of God and the wildness of God. Wilder also echoes the word bewilder, hinting at the bewildering mystery of a God who doesn’t always fit within the boundaries we build around Him. Faith sometimes takes us down paths we never expected, beyond what is familiar and into places where we begin to see God in new ways. The name holds both ideas: light for the journey and a God wild enough to lead us somewhere new.

Rooted in the Christian story but unafraid of questions, Light Wilder makes earthy folk music that explores the places where faith becomes less about having everything figured out and more about learning to trust what cannot be fully contained.

The songs follow the traces of light scattered through Scripture and history, the stones we build, the stories we inherit, the things we hold onto, and the moments when greater light asks us to see them differently.

With acoustic guitars, banjo, organic percussion, and layered communal harmonies, Light Wilder creates music for the space between certainty and mystery: something solid enough to stand on, alive enough to keep moving, and wild enough to keep drawing us further.