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U2’s “Country Mile” is from a place you might recognize: Luke 24 or from Bono’s memoir.
Bono writes: “Hanging in our house is a wall-sized piece of art by… Wim Wenders. THE ROAD TO EMMAUS… where close friends of Jesus are said to have walked with him, without knowing it.”
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39 YEARS ON from the immortal “Sunday Bloody Sunday” at Live Aid with Biblical Allusions
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ASK BONO and ALI over a pint of Guinness
Q1. Which one of you first saw what U2 might become?
Q2. You talk about faith a lot. Are you religious?
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ASK BONO
About his mother’s death and what death means to him now
Thanks to
@fullerseminary
&
@wdavidotaylor
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#Bono
: “I’d always be first up when there was an altar call, the ‘COME TO JESUS’ moment. I still am. If I was in a cafe right now and someone said, ‘Stand up if you’re ready to GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS,’ I’d be the first to my feet.”
#Surrender
, “Stories for Boys”
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#Bono
: “If ever a song got to live up to a ridiculous billing, ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’ is that song. We must have played it a 1,000 times, and no matter how shite a show… to this day when we play ‘Streets,’ it’s as if GOD WALKS THROUGH THE ROOM.”
#Surrender
, “Streets”
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ASK BONO to speak to the U.S. President and other bigwigs about the Bible at breakfast time
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#Bono
: “Ali told me that she loved ALL of me… I wrote her a song called ‘ALL I Want Is You,’ but I put her as the protagonist. SHE IS THE SINGER of the song. It became one of our most enduring songs and the opposite of pretty much everyone’s reading of it.”
#Surrender
, “Desire”
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#Bono
: “Don’t you think if he’d just hung on,” Michael says, “he’d have gotten through it?… If he’d just have waited, mate, he’d have found a WAY OUT of whatever hole he was in.”
#Surrender
, “Stuck in a Moment” (Michael Hutchence on Kurt Cobain’s suicide)
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#Bono
: “[My father] told me in those final days that when accepting his cancers, he’d lost his FAITH, but he also told me that I should never lose mine. That it was the MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT ME.”
#Surrender
, “Lights of Home”
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Biblical Allusions in
@U2
’s “The Wanderer”
Rare live performance and special tribute to the late Johnny Cash.
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#Bono
: “Ali told me that she LOVED all of me, that even the TROUBLED parts of my SOUL were her delight. That she LOVED me when I was four and eight and twelve… before she met me aged thirteen…. She didn’t need me to be anyone else. She LOVED me.”
#Surrender
, “Desire”
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ASK BONO to read Psalm 40 from “The Message” and ASK EUGENE PETERSON what he thinks of U2’s “40”
Courtesy of
@fullerseminary
and
@wdavidotaylor
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ASK BONO
Q. You’re obviously a believer, but not in the Church as the Church...?
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#Bono
: “I TOOK JESUS with me EVERYWHERE and I STILL DO. I’ve never left Jesus out of the most banal or profane actions of my life.”
#Surrender
, “Stories for Boys”
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ASK BONO
Q. When you say the Lord’s Prayer, which phrase really grips you?
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ASK BONO
Q. What or who was Jesus as far as you’re concerned?
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#Bono
: “Returning me to childhood was good because I was learning that not only must you ‘ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AS A CHILD’ but it’s also how you access your creativity. Adultism is the enemy.”
#Surrender
, “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” (Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17)
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#Bono
: “Ali and I had been falling in love, and as we were investigating love in all its manifestations, we were… experiencing an effect that we still [hold] true today: that the CLOSER we felt to our MAKER, the CLOSER we were to EACH OTHER.”
#Surrender
, “I Will Follow”
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#Bono
: “It’s an extraordinary thing, the MOMENT OF SURRENDER. To get down on your knees and ask the silence to save you, to reveal itself to you. To kneel down….. and ask to be carried.”
#Surrender
, “Even Better Than The Real Thing”
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#Bono
: “You say LOVE is a temple, LOVE a higher LAW”
#Galatians
: “For the entire LAW is fulfilled in keeping this ONE command: ‘LOVE your neighbor as yourself.’ If you bite and devour EACH OTHER, watch out or you will be destroyed by EACH OTHER.” 5:14-15 NIV
#U2
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#Bono
: “It had been only months since Iris had died, and I had no inkling that her departure would leave me in the hands of another SPIRIT GUIDE, a perfect soul to make my own IMPERFECTIONS MY STRENGTH.”
#Surrender
, “Song for Someone” (John 16:13; 2Co 12:9)
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Another October
Where kingdoms rise
And kingdoms fall
But You go on
Bono wrote “October” at 21 years of age with a little help from a Book that changed his life, and would continue to, and the lives of millions of fans.
Are you a fan of October?
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#Bono
: “While we were working on Achtung Baby, I made a note to self. ‘Sing lower, use technology if you have to.’ On The Fly… I used electronic distortion to get to a different personality, but on Until The End Of The World I used A CONVERSATION. WITH JESUS.”
#Surrender
, “One”
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Biblical Allusions in
@U2
’s “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
“For the Reverend Martin Luther King, sing.”
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Dear U2,
It could be Bad or Acrobat. But if transcendence ever had a name other than God, it would be this. Every U2 fan knows the feeling, getting ready to leave the ground, being swept into that other place, not coming down. We go there with you...
Your fans.
#fanletters2U2
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#Bono
: “We don’t have to pretend we’re all the same, and we don’t have to CARRY EACH OTHER. But in truth, like it or not, we do get to CARRY EACH OTHER.”
#Surrender
, “One” (Galatians 6:2 NIV)
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And God said, “Let there be Achtung Baby.”
#U2
COMING SOON ON BONO’S BIBLE
THE ACHTUNG BABY SINGLES:
1. “The Fly”
2. “Mysterious Ways”
3. “One”
4. “Even Better Than The Real Thing”
5. “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses”
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#Bono
: “Jordan Joy Iris Still Water Hewson was born… 10th day in May. On my birthday… [named] after the RIVER JORDAN, the river of the gospel song, where the sweet chariot swings low, and a band of angels are coming for to carry me home.”
#Surrender
, “Wild Horses” (2 Kings 2)
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#Bono
: “I’ve never been to AA, but I get a sense of the spirituality of the 12 Steps…. Taking responsibility for yourself is one of the most important steps, along with SURRENDERING to your HIGHER POWER.”
#Surrender
, “Even Better Than The Real Thing”
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#Bono
: “A lot of people know Jesus’s story of THE PRODIGAL SON, a young man who squanders his father’s inheritance on fun and frolics and after a while falls on hard times and has to head home humiliated”
#Surrender
, “I Will Follow” (Luke 15)
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#Bono
: “If we kept going, we could do that thing that no one else has done. But only if we kept moving, kept together, and kept a kind of HUMILITY. Only if we kept breaking up the band.
And putting it together again.”
#Surrender
, “Even Better Than The Real Thing”
#U2
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What does a Professor of Religion have to say about
#U2
's "The Fly"? Here's a throwback to our 30th anniversary special with Professor Ken M. Penner.
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#Bono
: “that week in 1976… I’d joined the band [AND] formally asked Alison Stewart to go out with me. Nothing would ever be the same. The SKY didn’t SPLIT, the RAIN didn’t STOP, and we were not looking down from a HILL over a CITY.”
#Surrender
, “Song for Someone”
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ASK BONO
Q. When you say God, what’s in your mind? To whom or what do you pray?
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Biblical Allusions in
@U2
’s “Even Better Than The Real Thing”
WARNING: Sexual Biblical Content
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#Bono
: “the apostle Paul [thought] LOVE is more important than FAITH and even HOPE. ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then FACE TO FACE: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.’”
#Surrender
, “Stuck in a Moment” (1 Corinthians 13:12-13 KJV)
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#Bono
: “I have kissed HONEY LIPS, felt the healing in her finger tips”
#SongOfSongs
: “Your love delights me, my sweetheart and bride. Your love is better than wine… The taste of HONEY is on your LIPS my darling; your tongue is milk and HONEY for me.” 4::10-11 GNB
#U2
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The making of MYSTERIOUS WAYS — a biblical, historical and literary overview in 2 mins.
#U2
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