When the editors of Relevant, a magazine for Evangelical hipsters, spun off a series of spiritual biographies of musicians a few years ago, they went straight for the most problematic Christians they could find: Bob Dylan, whose dalliance with Jesus in the 1970s was hot, heavy, and apparently short-lived; the Irish rock group U2, whose lead singer Bono flirts constantly with be (...)
November 21, 2008
Books
The Man in Gray
Johnny Cash and the Great American ContradictionChristianity and the Battle for the Soul of a NationRodney ClappWestminster John Knox Press, $16.95, 192 pp.
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