Deus Ex Musica: Four Pop Songs for Lent

My latest post for Deus Ex Musica is on four pop songs for Lent. For over 50 years, pop musicians in all genres have explored the meaning and significance of Jesus in their music. The result is a rich collection of songs that consider important spiritual questions like faith, doubt, and prayer in unique and often provocative ways.

Deus Ex Musica’s Delvyn Case and I have recently been in conversation in a short series for HeartEdge to try to mine this rich resource to share rock and pop music for Lent, Easter and Christmas. We both have a deep interest in the ways faith is expressed in and through pop music in all its many guises. So, in this series we attempted to tap our differing interests and knowledge by choosing four songs for each festival we discussed. In this post I share the four songs we chose for Lent.

My earlier pieces for Deus Ex Musica on music for the Epiphany and the New Year can be found here and here. Recordings of the HeartEdge series with Delvyn Case can be found on the HeartEdge Facebook page here.

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 Rapsody - Jesus Coming.