The aura of celebrity that encircles Michael Curry’s head in place of a halo continued to grow brighter as he met with members of a rock band to talk about “the way of love”.
As you probably know, when they’re not busy playing rock and roll, making excessive amounts of money, and devising ways to evade paying tax, Bono and the rest of U2 enjoy instructing star-struck bishops on the deep theological matters of the day.
From here:
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry met backstage this week with U2 and front man Bono at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where the Episcopal Church leader and the globally renowned rockers discussed Curry’s Reclaiming Jesus initiative.
The meeting happened in the evening June 25 just before the first of a series of U2 concerts in New York on the band’s Experience + Innocence tour. A photo released by the band shows the foursome posing with Curry.
“I know of no other group that has sung and witnessed more powerfully to the way of love than U2,” Curry said June 27 in a written statement to Episcopal News Service. “It was a real blessing to sit with them to talk about Jesus, the way of love, and changing our lives and the world. They are an extraordinary community gift to us all.”
When I see a photo of Bishop Michael Curry with, not Bono, but Moyo, the latter being the real surname of Dambisa Moyo, a remarkably accomplished Zambian-born international economist who analyzes the macroeconomy and global affairs [Wikipedia] and author of, in particular, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, the context of such a photo being that he has paid some attention to an intelligent, informed, and respected view contrary to that of the “Glamour Aid” of which Bono et al are glitterati, then I will have some assurance that this episcopal peddler of a mushy mixture of ideas, some of them contradictory according to the Gospel, has started to think said Gospel rather than feel it according to the current and fashionable pale parody of it.
By the end of my first missions trip to Africa I was convinced that the westward pointing Make Poverty History signs needed to be turned inwards towards Africa, and Africans. The same applies to indigenous populations in Canada.
“You’re out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you’re not moving anywhere
You thought you’d found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace”