All right, this is random, but GLEE starts up tonight. And my DVR is set and ready.

This summer, Ian Brennan, co-creator of Glee, accepted an award at the 17th Annual Catholics in Media Awards. In part, he admitted:

I have always struggled with belief, as I think most honest people do, and there was day, when I was a teenager, maybe seventeen, and I actually think we may have been raking leaves, but I sort of came to my dad (an ex-Paulist priest) with the fact that I couldn’t really fathom how there could be a god. It just didn’t seem like it was at all true, and then, with just a flick of his wrist, my dad just sort of turned and offered an explanation, which years later kind of became sort of the last scene in the screenplay “Glee”, which is how our TV show sort of began its life and spent its infancy.

Wonder about the role of family on one’s perception of being Catholic? Read the whole speech and the flick of the wrist theological explanation here.