“U2” Articles

In U2’s Songs of Innocence, the artist can participate in this reality of love, but only if he can first humbly admit the poverty of his own soul.

U2’s POP is about faith’s fragility amidst the noise, confusion, and chaos that come when you realize your ideology isn’t going to change the world.

Skye Jethani, Drew Dyck, and Richard Clark join Jonathan to talk about U2’s reissue of The Joshua Tree, Khalid’s American Teen, and McDonald’s Grand Mac.

“Of Crowns and Crows” may not reach the heights of artistry, but it’s real. It’s human. And most unusual of all, it’s a testimony of fidelity and constancy.

Sometimes a cover version of a song reveals that different artists discover new possibilities, new interpretations, new insights in borrowed material. And sometimes it makes you wonder if the performer ever really listened to the words that they were singing.

“A Singer Addresses His Audience” sounds to me like an artist declaring no allegiance to listeners who are focused only on surface details, patiently reminding them that the real call is to be true to a vision, to climb a mountain toward something timeless rather than trendy.

Through the practice of those songs, I absorbed them. They would come to me in hard times and times of celebration, and I would pray them aloud. What’s more, when I sang I felt an exhilarating surrender of my immediate burdens and concerns, and a sense of connection to something larger than myself.

“There are times when I think that an artist’s spiritual beliefs should be considered secondary to the quality of their art.”

How an ancient form of Biblical poetry and modern pop music might help the Church better minister to the suffering.

Bono should never stop preaching.

Adam Carrington reviews U2’s newest album.