The best thing about teaching is that you learn so much from your students. Two of the students in Cultures of the Religious Right are doing research on Christian music, which exists in every genre you can imagine. Here's the metalcore band Norma Jean. (Not for the faint of heart!)
The words:
Staring at the world through the hole you put in my hand.
That was caused by a blade you gently inserted.
I did this for you, not for your religion, not for your patterns
I did this for you. I did this for a man like you.
Stop searching and find Me.
I am stabbed by grace and slinging blood.
A far cry from pastel portraits of Jesus with sheep and children!
