Ah, the media

I recently had a contact from a reporter working on a story about the idea that one particular church had created a brand new trend by using U2 in worship recently, and the reporter wanted to know why other churches were not as innovative. I told the reporter that a very wide variety of denominations /groups had been using U2 liturgically for years, and that representing it as innovative, new, or denominationally specific was so off base as to be comical.

The reporter then asked me whether any other popular music had "made inroads" into churches, or if this new trend was unique to U2. I replied that there were not any unusual inroads being made; all sorts of spiritually-themed music and other media had been used by all sorts of churches for ages. But U2, I said, had long been an "obvious no-brainer" to work with, in part simply because they were so universally known.

The reporter wrote a story about how one particular church had created a brand new trend by using U2 in worship, and mentioned that other churches were not so innovative. [bangs head on wall]