News, Comments and Information about the U2 Eucharist


January 16, 2009
No Line on the Horizon
Site update and a word or two about U2’s new album.
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September 9, 2007
U2charists combine U2 music and worship
Wellington - It started one Sunday when Deacon Charles Cannon noticed the iPods and Sidekicks coming out in church. “I realized pretty quickly that the kids were disconnected during the service,” Cannon said of the teenagers in his youth group at St. David’s Episcopal Church. “I learned they didn’t know what was going on in the [...]
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April 3, 2007
U2 church service reaches out
The so-called U2charist, named after the band and the Eucharist - or Holy Communion - originated in the US.
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March 14, 2007
Bono Preaches
Bon was presented with the Chairman’s Award at the prestigious 38th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles. His acceptance speech brought people to their feet.
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February 28, 2007
The role of Scripture in U2 music and lyrics
Many U2 songs include either direct quotations or allusions to specific passages of scripture.
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Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
Why is the Church that once shunned U2 now claiming them as its own? More than two decades into worldwide success, have the boys from Ireland actually found what they’re looking for?
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Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog
Get Up Off Your Knees is a thoughtful and provocative collection of sermons by a group of preachers from across the international church spectrum who have been moved to theological reflection on the art and work of U2.
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February 26, 2007
One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God
Christian Scharen (a Lutheran pastor and instructor of practical theology at Yale) points to the many biblical, theological and spiritual themes found in U2’s lyrics to explain why this band “matters to those seeking God.”
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February 25, 2007
Pastor finds what he is looking for: U2
It wasn’t the traditional ringing of the bells, opening prayer and Gloria Patri that had parishioners at the Federated Church of Ashland clapping and cheering yesterday morning. It was letting congregants rock out to Bono in their pews that had everyone all jazzed up.
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February 2, 2007
Hymns replaced by U2 lyrics at church
In what is more rock concert than Book of Common Prayer, a live band will belt out U2 classics such as Mysterious Ways and Beautiful Day as worshippers sing along with the lyrics, which will appear on screens.
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