Music for the Apocalypse

Check out the article I got published in The Christian Century!

I am thrilled about the publication, but I am blown away by the art they got from Eric Nyquist, shown above. See more of his art here.

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From my article:

“Instead of accepting the way things are as the way they have always been and must be, the apocalyptic imagination envisions the destruction of the status quo to make way for the dawn of justice and peace. That imagination is shot through with a revolutionary spirit. After Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” alerted me to the apocalyptic potential of metal music, I started to pay closer attention to what metal bands were saying with their music. When I did, I found that metal has consistently captured that revolutionary spirit in a way that the end-times prophecies of the conservative Christian preachers of my youth did not.”

Read the full article here.

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