Dusty Bibles

If you've ever sat there late at night, staring at your glowing phone screen and thinking, "Maybe I should read something more edifying than the comments under a dog video," then Josiah Queen has written your song. "Dusty Bibles" is part confession, part sermon, and part gentle nudge from someone who's been scrolling right alongside you.

Released on June 20, 2025, as part of Queen's second album Mt. Zion, "Dusty Bibles" is a faith-filled, folk-influenced song where Josiah draws a stark contrast between modern technology and spiritual neglect. The opening line lays it out plain: We got dust on our Bibles, brand new iPhones No wonder why we feel this way

Queen got the idea for the song after spending an hour doomscrolling on his phone. He wrote it with Hillsong United's Dylan Thomas, Rhode Island singer-songwriter Jvke, and the track's producer, John Michael Howell "With 'Dusty Bibles,' I just had this thought about we've got dust on our Bibles but brand-new iPhones," he told Billboard. "We all kind of laughed and [my co-writers] were like, 'You can't put that in a song,' and' 'How about Android users?' But it just stuck."