On the generation-defining band’s 50th birthday, U2’s 10 best songs openly and subversively exploring God’s grace on our shared spiritual journey.

So God wants to fill the world with abundant, unexplainable grace and mercy. ‘What’s wrong with that? I’d like to know.’

Matthew 18:21-35: A protest song against systemic and institutional abuse reminds us of why Jesus’ call for forgiveness should never be equated with “weakness.”

A folk ballad to America’s displaced migrant workers and a traditional night-time prayer call on us to remember the dignity, suffering and exhaustion of those who labor.

As autumn’s breath begins to gently blow summer aside, a reflection on a Psalm of Van.

A reflection on how a seminal album from the Seattle rock band suddenly emerged from the shadows and spoke to Generation X’s latchkey restlessness with prayer-like songs of resilience and community.

In a 1987 deep cut, the British alternative band reminds us how the powerful in this hungry world are prone to easily confusing the heart of faith with a kind of transaction.

Nevertheless, she persisted: A rock song inspired by the Canaanite woman who confronted Jesus and wound up teaching us something about power dynamics, mercy and the Incarnation itself.

On her long-awaited third solo album, the restless singer-songwriter drives through techno sadness, death and restlessness to reach something that sounds like grace.

Matthew 14:22–33 and a wild song by the Violent Femmes remind us that it’s often in the strange, the wild and the seemingly impossible that God is working hardest to transform us.

From the pulpit: How a Jazz masterpiece and Jesus' "hard sayings" offer lessons on the cost of discipleship, challenging us toward grace, divine love and defiant hope.

For the Feast of the Transfiguration, an indie folk-rock icon opens his trembling heart and puts one of the Bible's most wondrous scenes to music.

For the Feast of the Transfiguration, an indie folk-rock icon opens his trembling heart and puts one of the Bible's most wondrous scenes to music.

Isaiah’s beautifully prophetic surrender of “Send Me” doesn’t offer permission to wrap war-making in sacred language, but rather challenges the powerful who insist God is on their side.