“That’s why we moved to North Carolina,” he continued. “We were going to start another church, only to figure out they were going to do the same thing, except they wanted to be the head. So we left that. But that really kind of messed up my view on church, and it definitely messed up my mom’s view.”

And while he noted that his mother still struggles to put trust into any organized church, she maintains her faith, which helped him strengthen his own.

“Having instilled that in us at a young age, it made it easier for me to go throughout my own journey,” Noah added. “Everybody gets that idea like, ‘Is there really a God?’ And something that I love is that when I was young she said, ‘God says when you lack faith, ask for a test.’ And he will provide the test.”

But while Noah considers himself a devout Christian, he doesn’t hold himself to the standard of any organized religion anymore.

“I don’t have time to go to church every weekend,” he laughed. “I’ve got to run.”