“Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

Category: mewithoutyou

Over the past few years, my reading habits oscillate from fiction and graphic novels to history to religion and beyond. Sometimes I have a plan for what I want to read next, and sometimes a book just falls into my hands, as if out of nowhere. The latter is what happened recently when I picked up Diana Butler Bass’ Christianity for the Rest of Us: … Read More “Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

November 23, 2023 + christianity, five iron frenzy, mewithoutyou, music, religion, tool

Christian Punk/Hardcore and Evangelicalism

by Matthew Teutsch

During the late 1990s, I was a undergrad in college and heavily involved in the “Christian” hardcore/punk scene. I started in this scene while in high school when I found out about Tooth and Nail Records during youth group events. The promotional material would compare bands on the label to “secular” bands, saying for example that if you like Smashing Pumpkins you’d probably like … Read More Christian Punk/Hardcore and Evangelicalism

July 22, 2021 + aaron weiss, king david, lillian e smith, mewithoutyou, the angel of death came to david's room, the journey

Angel of Death

by Matthew Teutsch

Recently, I’ve started relistening to a lot of mewithouYou, especially after writing about their song “Dryness and the Rain” for my “Politics in ‘Christian’ Songs” series. That song led me to play it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright (2009) on repeat, partly because it’s one of the six cds that have been in my car’s cd player for, … Read More Angel of Death

June 15, 2021 + #mewithoutyou, mewithoutyou, rumi, the dryness and the rain, the road home

Politics in “Christian” Songs: Part III

by Matthew Teutsch

Over the last couple of posts, I’ve written about politics and social commentary in “Christian” bands and songs, specifically metal, punk, and ska. I chose not to write about hip hop because that is another discussion altogether, one that I have written about before when discussing songs by Lecrae, Sho Baraka, and Propaganda. In his new book, He Saw That It Was Good, Sho … Read More Politics in “Christian” Songs: Part III

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“Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

Category: mewithoutyou