APRIL 2012: ESSAY by Joshua Banner Jason Lief's "Leave Metallica Alone! Why Metallica Coming to Church Is a Bad Idea," from the February 2012 issue of Perspectives, is a refreshing commentary on the evangelical compulsion to co-opt and baptize popular culture. Lief, a professor of religion and a fan of heavy metal music, writes a brief defense of why he is not interested in reading John Van Sloten's Bringing Metallica to Church: Searching for the Everywhere God in Everything. On…
Joshua BannerApril 1, 2012