In Sullivan’s short story, Upon This Rock, he informs the reader that he is less than excited to be writing an article on Christian music, let alone driving to rural Pennsylvania. After a long journey to the festival he finds himself amongst thousands of young, white, Christian teenagers at the Creation Festival. On his first day traveling to the largest Christian Rock festival in the country, he makes friends with six West Virginian boys. He is soon to find out that they are equally as redneck as they as Christian. Throughout his time with them he learns the struggles each of the boys have lived through including; murders, suicide, and even a father locked up in prison. John is no longer religious because intellectually he is unable to feel
