My faith has leaned on Christian rock. Check out Disciple, Thousand Foot Crutch, Kutless, Pillar. I find this genre brings lyrics and inspiration that I find lacking in mainstream Christian stuff. But, i get it, many struggle to tolerate it the style.
This website seems good too…
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I’ve heard of Disciple and TFK but not Kutless (heard of em though) and Pillar. Might have to check them out.
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On the topic of “Popular song (i.e. presumably ‘secular’) that speaks to you about your faith”…
Annie Lennox, “Little Bird”. It seems to resonate with Psalm 55.
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What does it say that I am agnostic, and much of my favorite music is instrumental?? 
I’ll think on it - there must be something I can post …
This will do …
but I grant there could be more than one way to interpret this. 
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Beautiful video. Perhaps a link to the words in English?
My favorite is In Christ Alone.
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Wolves by Down like Silver.
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Sounds like a dirge.
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I guess to me it sounds like a triumphant reunion. A sort of thanatophilic transcendence. To me o guess I don’t see it as an end but as continuing to do my part for the lovely wild things. It’s also why I don’t feel annoyed about mosquitoes that bite me. I know they need my blood for their babies just like I need their babies to grow up into pollinators for the tiny orchids in the bog. I wonder if it’s how a Stegodyphus lineatus would feel.
For me when I think about faith the main thing that comes to my mind is the stewardship. Adam as a golem of mud who had the wind of god forced into him. Awakening and being in this garden and surrounded by all the animals naming them. Very much how Enkidu was in Gilgamesh. Kind of odd but how in genesis it says the human was split into Adam and Eve. But before that split happened the golem was split from the earth. So to me dying kind of feels like being merged back into the land as if I’m some sort of sorcerer of les trois frères paintings.
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I’m pretty sure I meant to include a link, but perhaps it works just as well without? 
Anyway …
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I’m still as agnostic as can be even while I also think God is something real, dynamic and important. But I think every tradition’s image of God is just a way to focus on something forever mysterious from our point of view. I can’t be a Christian because I think the mystery has never punctured our plane of existence to transmit a message on our terms. Every phrophet in every tradition is using their poetic inspiration (mysticism lite) to vivify the mystery; none of them are taking dictation.
With all that in mind here is another one that appeals to me.
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I have several of Ron Sexsmith’s CDs but not this one, thanks for posting this song, I like it too. I was fortunate to hear Ron S. in person in Saskatoon about 12 years ago.
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This probably doesn’t qualify as a “popular song’ because almost no one knows of Daniel Amos…a Christian “alternative” band and their album Darn Floor Big Bite from 1987. This concept album emphasized God’s mystery and transcendence and our striving to understand him. Remember the days of concept albums? I wore out the cassette tape in the summer of ‘87 with the volume cranked to “11” although I realize the music is not to everyone’s taste 
Hard to pick one song…
These are the images I arrange, To fill in my report on you
Holiness, mystery, disturbing and strange, Obscuring the point of my view
Everyone seems to know just what you are, But I never seem to break through
Forgive me, please, if I can’t see that far, Life’s dulling the point of my view
Chorus]
Half light, coming through the dark glass darkly
Half light, where faith and doubt remain
Half light, tattoo scars where shadows mark me
Half light, I don’t expect you to explain
This is the passage I undertake, Over the epoch and phase The terror and sweetness of history and fate, The last word on the very last page
Everyone seems to think they’ve got it made, That you’re on a rack by the door
It’s true, I don’t know much except I am saved, From falling through cracks in the floor
Tomorrow I’m planning to write the great book in which I will capture our time
Set forth the fury, the sound and the look If I could just make up my mind
Everyone seems to think you’re on their side, But I don’t think you’re that small
How could they see it when reason has died?
We haven’t a clue to it all
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Great lyrics and I like that I can understand them as sung. True humility starts with recognizing our epistemic limits. Faith without bravado and entitlement can be real.
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While I like the Sexsmith song a little more this one by Iris Dement would have to be the agnostic’s anthem.
A Daniel Amos fan in the wild! I’m a big fan of their album Shotgun Angel but haven’t checked too much of the rest of their discography so you’ve given me a good place to start now.
(Despite my relatively young age, my dad did me right by introducing me to all the old Christian alternative/metal from the 70s and 80s)