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Wen Reagan is an independent musician and producer from Durham, NC. Wen splits his time between writing and performing, studying church history at Duke University, and leading worship for Christ Community Church in Chapel Hill, NC. Wen has been writing and performing since 2004 when he released his first solo effort, The Great Facade. In 2007, he released his sophomore effort, Empires. In November of 2011, Wen, his wife Casey, and good friend Stuart Pierce released their Christmas album, Epiphany. Since then, Wen has contributed several songs to different Cardiphonia projects [http://cardiphonia.bandcamp.com/], a national collective of local worship leaders intent on reviving old hymn texts with new musical settings to benefit the church. For more information on Wen and his music, check out www.wenreagan.com. With the lyrical influences of Derek Webb and Andrew Peterson fused with the musical influences of Caedmon's Call, Wilco, and Steven Delopoulos (Burlap to Cashmere), Singer/Songwriter/Producer Wen Reagan provides a provocative inspection of kingdom building in his concept album, Empires. Empires questions the disparity between the consumption-driven, prosperity-based empire building of American Christianity and the humiliating, self-sacrificing kingdom building of Jesus' biblical witness. Songs such as "The Christian Nation" and "The Empire Politik" question the myth of American national righteousness and the marriage between Christianity and American politics, whi