U2 Sermons

A beautiful reflection on being at a Madison Square Garden U2 show by Jonathan Martin.

Did you attend a 360 show in Dublin, Istanbul, Pittsburgh, or Moscow? If so, Michael Williams needs you for his dissertation!

Some readers may already have seen Tim Neufeld's post on his talk "Social Justice and Pop Culture: U2 as a non-traditional Christ...

Pieces from Andrew William Smith , Stocki , and Tim Neufeld are among several reflecting on the opening couple shows of the current U2 tour...

I wasn't in Vancouver, didn't follow the tweeting or stream, and am just catching up now, so am totally unqualified to comment. But:...

I noted some time ago on this blog the publication of Deane Galbraith's essay "Meeting God in the Sound" in The Counter -Narra...

This post will contain some spoilers from an article on the upcoming tour. If you don't want to see them, stop reading now. The New Yo...

I discovered from a book review that Bono is included in the anthology Finding God: A Treasury of Conversion Stories . The material included...

This article shares the sad news that Church of Ireland priest the Rev. Jack Heaslip, who has long been spiritual advisor to U2 and travele...

This post is from some time ago, but it was drawn to my attention on Twitter today: a conversation between Aaron Belz and the brilliant musi...

A collection of essays from the 2013 U2 conference, U2 Trans-, has just been published. If you look here to purchase from the publisher, yo...

An interesting reflection by Tim Gombis (HT Tim Neufeld, who has some nice contributions in the comment thread) on the endings of both the G...

Steve Reynolds of World Vision writes a piece about Bono and Ali's time in Ethiopia , published today for the World Vision magazine.

An interesting article on the Jewish Daily Forward about Jewish influences on U2. This seems to be a fairly unexplored topic to me, and I we...

Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll?: Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2 the collection of papers from the first U2 aca...

We're hearing from Episcopal folk that at Sewanee's DuBose lectures today,  David Brown , professor of theology, aesthetics and cu...

I'm quoted in Terry Mattingly's "On Religion" column of Sept 21, which speaks about the fact that U2's listeners, as ...

The New Yorker weighs in with a think piece on U2's history of writing about faith in their work, ending with some reflections on Songs...

Readers may already have seen many of these articles, but just to get them in one place, here are comments from several writers who regularl...

I expect anyone who reads this blog has seen a few other pieces dealing with U2's newest release by Christian reviewers already, and I...