Inside CT: Bono's Burning Question
Evangelicals and U2's singer try to figure each other out.
Timothy C. Morgan | posted 4/22/2002 12:00AM
2 of 2
Copyright © 2002 Christianity Today. Click for reprint information.
Related Elsewhere
Also appearing on our site today:
Bono Tells Christians: Don't Neglect Africa He urges evangelicals to take a lead in fighting AIDS and poverty.
'A Rock Band That's Good for Something' The author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 talks about why politicians listen to Bono.
Blunt's article on Lt. Col. Martha McSally, Flier Shuns Abaya , focused on her fight against an Air Force rule requiring her to wear Muslim covering.
In the recent cover story, "Can Bono Save the World? ," Time magazine said that Bono knows he has to make the case for African aid with his head, not his heart.
Other articles include:
Rock Star Bono's Agenda For Africa — AllAfrica.com (March 1, 2002)
Bono's crusade comes to DC — Terry Mattingly's On Religion
Bono: 'You can't escape the politics if you're Irish' — CBS News (February 27, 2002)
Over two decades, U2's leader has evolved from heart-on-his-sleeve idealist to irony-drenched rock 'n' roll Liberace to hopeful pragmatist — Salon.com (Oct. 2, 2001)
Bono: The Beliefnet Interview — (February, 2001)
Previous Christianity Today articles on AIDS in Africa include:
U.S. Blacks Preach Abstinence Gospel Mission workers testify that Christ helps control sexual urges. (March 27, 2002)
Mercy Impaired Let's shock the world by reversing our apathy toward African sufferers. (September 27, 2001)
Kenyan President Suggests Hanging for 'Knowingly' Infecting Others with AIDS Church organizations criticize use of capital punishment as solution to epidemic. (July 19, 2001)
Dying Alone Baptist women seek out and care for ashamed, abandoned AIDS patients. (June 15, 2001)
Few to Receive Generic AIDS Medicines Pharmaceutical companies drop suit against South Africa, but problems remain. (May 18, 2001)
Zambia's Churches Win Fight Against Anti-AIDS Ads Church leaders are concerned that condom promotion encourages promiscuity. (Jan. 12, 2001)
Mandela, De Klerk, and Tutu Join to Fight AIDS South Africa's men of peace call for end of silence and stigmatization. (Dec. 14, 2000)
Speaking with Action Against AIDS A report from the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference. (July 19, 2000)
'Have We Become Too Busy With Death?' As 4,900 people die each day from AIDS, African Christians are faced with the question. (Feb. 4, 2000)
'Sexual Revolution' Speeds Spread of HIV Among Africans An interview with World Relief's Debbie Dortzbach. (Feb. 4, 2000)
Books & Culture Corner: An Open Letter to the U. S. Black Religious, Intellectual, and Political Leadership Regarding AIDS and the Sexual Holocaust in Africa (Jan. 24, 2000)
Africa: Fidelity Urged to Fight AIDS (July 12, 1999)
Global Death Rates May Skyrocket (May 24, 1999)
I Am the Father of an AIDS Orphan (Nov. 17, 1997)
For more articles on AIDS in Africa, see allAfrica.com and Yahoo Full Coverage .
Subscribe to Christianity Today and get 3 free trial issues. No credit card required. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Offer valid in U.S. only.
If you decide you want to keep Christianity Today coming, honor your invoice for just $19.95 and receive nine more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The three trial issues are yours to keep, regardless. Click here for international orders 2-for-1 Gifts!
[Reader Reviews]
The allotted time for commenting has ended.
[Browse More Christianity Today]
-- Select -- CT Magazine Home Page News Opinion Blogs Essays Reviews Index Archives Contact Us