The middle-aged boys of Green Day continue they’re singular positions as composers of punk opera, as explained in this review from Richard Lindsay. 

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews U2′s latest album, No Line on the Horizon.

This just in from occasional, and hopefully more frequent, poptheology contributor, Richard Lindsay.

A couple of months ago, Alan Ackridge, a friend and youth minister in North Carolina, shared a brief post on spirituality and contemporary popular music. He gave a list of his favorite spiritual songs, only a few of which were actually performed by specifically Christian artists. I have long been suspect of “Christian music” and [...]

On the way home from Easter service just a moment ago, I heard a second great sermon on the radio. One of San Francisco’s better radio stations, KFOG, sounded as if it were playing some Easter-themed music on their Accoustic Sunrise set. We caught a new song by Sarah McLachlan called “Ordinary Miracle,” and this [...]

~by Alan Ackridge For most of the latter half of the 20th Century, a significant portion of the Christian church opposed popular culture. However, beginning in the 1980′s, politically paralleled with the rise of the “moral majority,” Christians have stopped shunning culture and have again attempted to shape it. Some of this effort has yielded [...]