Joy Division

The Unknown Pleasures of Lent.

Lent approaches, as always, silently and without fanfare. This year, I will shape my Lenten writings around the songs of Joy Division. Consider it a commentary for a kind of Lenten soundtrack. Mind you, this is not a Christianizing of Joy Division in any way. If anything, it is a drawing of Lenten observers further

Lent approaches, as always, silently and without fanfare.

This year, I will shape my Lenten writings around the songs of Joy Division. Consider it a commentary for a kind of Lenten soundtrack.

Mind you, this is not a Christianizing of Joy Division in any way. If anything, it is a drawing of Lenten observers further out alone into the Wilderness. Jesus went out alone into the Wilderness.

And we should not?

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Categories: Bleak Theology, Canon, Cultural Studies, Lent, Psalms and Songs, suffering, The Liturgical Year

Tags: #Joy Division, #Lent, #Wilderness

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