What I Like About Pop Music, And

The Fact Is That Ours Is The First Generation That Can Look Disease And Extreme Poverty In The Eye, Look Across The Ocean To Africa, And Say This, And Mean It. We Do Not Have To Stand For This. A Whole Continent Written Off - We Do Not Have To Stand For This.

So What We're Talking About Here Is Human Rights. The Right To Live Like A Human. The Right To Live, Period. And What We're Facing In Africa Is An Unprecedented Threat To Human Dignity And Equality.

But With Christ, We Have Access In A One-to-one Relationship, For, As In The Old Testament, It Was More One Of Worship And Awe, A Vertical Relationship. The New Testament, On The Other Hand, We Look Across At A Jesus Who Looks Familiar, Horizontal. The Combination Is What Makes The Cross.

The Great Music For So Many Artists - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - Was Always At The Moment When They Were Closest To Pop. It Would Be Easy For U2 To Go Off And Have A Concept Album, But I Want Us To Stay In The Pop Fray.

You See, Idealism Detached From Action Is Just A Dream. But Idealism Allied With Pragmatism, With Rolling Up Your Sleeves And Making The World Bend A Bit, Is Very Exciting. It's Very Real. It's Very Strong.