Spirituality has
taken over the glee club after Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) insists to have seen
the face of Jesus Christ in his grilled cheese sandwich, thereby referring to
it as his “Grilled Cheesus.” After sharing his revelation with the Glee club,
many members want to give praise to their respective beliefs in song forms.
Even Noah Puckerman (Mark Sailing) sings his first song of the season, Billy
Joel’s, “Only the Good Die Young.”

           Burt
Hummel (Mike O’Malley) makes his first appearance in series for the season.
After a few smaller appearances last season, O’Malley was made a season regular
coming into this second season. At the beginning of the episode, Kurt (Chris
Colfer) and his father are struggling with their relationship. As a teenager,
Kurt is struggling to balance family with social life, preferring to break
family traditions to participate in other activities. 

           However,
Kurt receives a wake-up call when his father is admitted to the hospital for a
heart attack and a lack of oxygen in his brain, the doctors unsure of when he
will wake-up. When his fellow glee club member, Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley)
tries to support him with her rendition of Whitney Houston’s, “I Look to You,”
Kurt appreciates the thought but does not believe in in God and would rather
not have the prayers of others.

           After
growing up with a mentally-deficient sister and noticing other kids tease her
struggles, Sue Sylvester has little faith in God after she never felt her
prayers were answered. Kurt also has little faith arguing that God made him gay
but his supporters don’t accept him. As such, Sue enlists Kurt in her complaint
to the school board that the glee club should not be singing songs about spirituality 

           Meanwhile,
many members of the glee club are rallying together to support Kurt and his
father. Although never much of a religious man, even Puckerman attends a
religious service to pray for the Hummels. Surprisingly, though, the three
times Finn prays, it is not for Kurt or his father (whom Finn considers to be a
father-like figure), but rather for his needs. I found myself losing faith in
Finn each time he was more concerned with his own needs, and thankfully Finn
realized his actions were selfish too.

           Although
her first attempt was proven unsuccessful, Mercedes manages to convince Kurt to
attend service with her. At the service she makes an important point applicable
to even those who aren’t religious: “You’ve got to believe in something. Something
more than you can taste, touch, and see.” Following this she beautifully sings
Simon and Garfunkel’s, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” with the chorus of her
church. 

           Kurt
actually does take Mercedes’ message to heart and at his father’s bedside,
admits that although he does not believe in God, he believes in his father, and
the two of them together as a family. Although our beliefs may not be to
something spiritual, this episode really focuses on the importance of family,
which is just as important if not sometimes more superior to religious beliefs.
The episode then concludes with the club singing Joan Osborne’s “One of Us,”
and as Sue hears the group sings, she begins to realize she needs a little more
faith in her life.