Soul Audio has an extensive interview with EP about the next record, including name-checking me and Ronzilla for pushing him to embrace the concept.

But I think the fun stuff is in EP explaining what he is writing about:

Eric: There’s the story of a dear friend who, over the course of the past year, lost his business, his home and nearly everything else when his business went under. He battled angrily with God throughout the ordeal, was changed, and was born a new man; I love this honest-to-life, mercy-filled story. I’m telling the story of an abandoned bicycle I saw in Washington DC. There’s my attempt to relate my life to that of an onion (courtesy of a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye). I’m telling the story of fearful, weary rabbits in the song “Run Down” (based on the Richard Adams novel, Watership Down). There’s the story of some friends of ours who went through a divorce.

See, unlike a lot of “Christian” music, EP doesn’t want to write radio friendly, feel-good songs about Jesus. Do you want to hear, even through the veil of the four-minute song, about someone else’s divorce? I don’t—but if EP is going to write about it, he will be working to glean a truth for us, a thought, something that we can carry with us. Give me that over “I Can Only Imagine” any day.