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Archive for June, 2009

More on The Gospel according to U2

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Graphic by Kostas Tsipos 
Last night I was on the Busted Halo radio show on Sirius/XM with Father Dave Dwyer, and he was asking me what I meant by the gospel according to U2? It’s a familiar question for someone who writes about religion and culture, and has been coming up for some forty years now, since Westminster John Knox published […]

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Blog business

Friday, June 19th, 2009

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After long years of listening and writing (and waiting for U2 to finish No Line on the Horizon), my book on U2 is finally coming at the beginning of July. Here is one of the press release pieces we’re sending out. Since we live in the land of sound bites and tweets, it’s short and […]

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Old White Guys

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

So I started following the story of Sonia Sotomayor while I was on vacation with Chandler, but as I’ve come home to Austin, it continues to simmer, with some prominent old white guys saying that the first Hispanic nominee to the Supreme Court is a racist and an intellectual lightweight (both claims I have trouble […]

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