KUT-Austin Interview on We Get to Carry Each Other
Thursday, July 30th, 2009http://kut.org/items/show/17669
Archive for July, 2009
U2 and Theology, Part 2
Sunday, July 26th, 2009From U2.com
I think of my book We Get to Carry Each Other as spiritual, because, as the band, critics, and I have suggested, U2’s music revolves around deep spiritual questions. Even the love songs can point us to larger realities, desires, and concerns, while throughout their career, including in the supposedly decadent days of “Zoo TV” […]
U2 and Theology: Pt. 1
Friday, July 24th, 2009Photo from U2.comFrom We Get to Carry Each Other:
U2 have become the biggest band in the world not in spite of their being “religious freaks”; they have achieved all this because of it. Band manager Paul McGuiness (the fifth Beatle, as it were, to the band) assured them early in their career […]
Walk On
Friday, July 17th, 2009We’re launching the U2 book tonight at Louisville’s great indy bookstore, Carmichael’s, and I’m preaching Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock service at St. Andrews Episcopal, Louisville. A preview:Two weeks ago, I was nearing the top of a mesa in New Mexico, about 8000 feet up, and I was beginning to have some misgivings. I had been hiking […]
A Few Thoughts on MJ and Heaven
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Awww. No puppies, though.
But first: a great conversation on the U2 book with Jonathan Blundell: Something Beautiful.
And now, Michael: Like many people, I grew up with Michael Jackson as a big part of my life; as my old friend Rhonda reminded me recently, I sang Michael’s version of “Ben” in sixth grade and won the talent show, […]
U2: Beauty
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009This is an early false start on the U2 book, written at Canterbury Cathedral, where it made more sense as an opening chapter than it seemed to when I got home. Part of it wound up in a chapter in the new We Get to Carry Each Other, out in a week or so, but I […]
