RADICAL LOVE a millennial gospel mix for punk-rock prophets and their rough-around the edges devotees. For raging against the powers that be, raising up your brothers and sisters, and just barely getting by on guts, faith, and the courage to be kind. For a radical, irresistible love burning inside you, begging to be enacted in the world. listen.
i. Burn This House Down//Tedashii: For James and John, sons of Zebedee, sons of thunder, respective social media publicity agent and angel-hounded scribe of The Cause.
ii. Counting Stars//One Republic: For Mary Magdalene, anointed by Allah and committed to reconciliation between classes, genders, and creeds.
iii. Land of Confusion//Disturbed: For Andrew and Phillip, the rabble-rousing boots on the ground responsible for too many rallies and protests to count.
iv. Baptism//Crystal Castles: For John the Georgia baptist, God-touched and wild-eyed, always ready to lay on hands and defend his prophet baby cousin.
v. Church Clap// KB feat. Lecrae: For Peter, the passionate, fast-talking, fallible cornerstone of the neo-gospel movement.
vi. Dignity//New Polotics: For Jude, hyped up on social injustice, armed with compassion, and out to salvage the environment’s dim future .
vii. Jesus Walks//Kanye West: For Bartholemew, the penniless transient at the heart of the movement, reminding everyone what sacrifice, humility, and Christian love looks like.
viii. Famous Last Words//My Chemical Romance: For Judas Iscariot, armed resistance advocate, left hand of Christ, and anarchist extraordinaire.
ix. Bring Us Home//Michael Tait, Bianca Callahan, and Lecrae: For Simon, halfway through Rabbinical school, flush with passion for preserving Jewish history, and inexplicably in love with the words of Mary’s wayward son.
x. Afterlife//Switchfoot: For Thomas, educated, world weary, and blessed with discernment, with the ability to sort out the solid truth from all the hype.
xi. Cant Hold Us//Macklemore feat. Ray Dalton:For Matthew, the high-rolling heir to a corporate empire betting all his money and resources on Yeshua and happy to lose it all for the good of the Kingdom.
xii. Fire in the Kitchen// Manafest: For James, kid brother of the Christ, dropout, petty criminal, and prodigal son.
xiii. What Would You Do// Bastille: For the boy with constellations in his eyes, a backpack full of bread and fish for the homeless, a redeeming word for the call girl on the corner, and a fiery anger against the big business demons and churched hypocrites of this word. For Yeshua, the carpenter’s son, light and truth bottled up in a slow-smiling, soft-spoken flesh-and-bone body.
bennu rising 