John Totten

How To Dismantle the Lord’s Supper: The U2charist Phenomena Observed

This article looks at the U2charist phenomenon and the implications of integrating pop music with the Eucharist. The author argues that the conflation of the rock group U2 with the Eucharist is a dilution of the table and suggests that we should approach the Eucharist, and music, with more critical minds.

Jeff Keuss

Bring on the Love: U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Over the years that began with War and The Unforgettable Fire and became clarified to laser precision in The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby – U2 has wrestled with the twinned ‘angels of their better nature’ – (1) lyrically writing and rewriting the ways in which desire will only be fully consummated with our embrace […]