Pastor Gaga: "Jesus loves every {expletive deleted] one of you!” -- Congregation: "and also with you"

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Here's a really great post by Peter Kline  comparing the liturgical flow of U2 and Lady Gaga concerts..

 Beth tipped us off  to the Kline article  with some  very helpful comments of her own.


To catch what the Rev. Lady Gaga does see as her purpose in life, as well as in the liturgical flow of her show, watch  this video interview,  3:334ff  when Barbara Walters asks, "What's the biggest misconception about you?"



Related:

• U2 Sermons: Reflections on my own paper at the conference

• The U2 liturgical plot

• the claw's "surrealism, sci-fi, and the sacred" 

• holy heteroclite:: Leitourgia, Leitmotif, Porn Stars and the  Drowning Man

• holy heteroclite:: let your spire so shine...so they can see it at Denny's

• a prayer during "moment of surrender" 

• "Moment of....Prayer Rap" 

• Bono: "Don't lose your faith in this holy clown

 

• The Acts of Jesus.. and a 5 (maybe 6)-act drama about   
• U2's "No Line": 5 meta motifs (and a sign from God)-part 1 
• Inclusio and Holy Helix on the Horizon 
• a little leitmotif lite: "No Line" as a (nonlinear) sequel/prequel to "Achung Baby"