We Get to Carry Each Other
The Gospel according to U2
Foreword by Brian D. McLaren
"The author is clearly a music fan, and his excitement about U2 is contagious. Rock music fans who have ever wondered if their faith and musical taste could ever be paired will be intrigued by U2's story and Garrett's theological analysis of the band's music."
—Publishers Weekly
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Garrett writes with the humility of genuine affection and gratitude. If you care at all about the role of music in western Christianity today, you'll want to read this book.
—Phyllis Tickle, author, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why
"Greg Garrett's book doesn't just speak to the U2 faithful, and his smart, sincere, and serious search through the layers of U2 meaning has made me a different kind of fan."
—Patton Dodd, author, My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion
Who among us has not experienced hearing a song that moved us deeply, that spoke to us in a truly spiritual way, despite the secular nature of the song itself? Millions of fans around the world have found that inspiration in the music of U2, arguably the biggest band in the world today. Now, on the heels of their latest studio album No Line on the Horizon, comes this engaging and informative examination of the spirituality that drives the band and its music.
The author, who interviewed the fledgling band on their second U.S. tour, takes us from their upbringing in Ireland, to their dominance over the music scene in the early 1990s, and then to their role as spiritual ambassadors to post-9/11 America. Throughout we get a picture of the spirituality that flows out of U2's music and how their influence has spread beyond music into issues such as AIDS activism, debt relief for developing nations, and the crisis in Darfur.
Paper - $16.95 - ISBN-13: 9780664232177 - 176 pages
