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The Theology of Johnny Cash


The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 1, I Walk the Line

"I Walk the Line" is a song of both marital and spiritual fidelity. And in both cases Cash struggled mightily.

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 2, Sinner & Saint

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 2, Sinner & Saint. Martin Luther's famous formulation was simul justus et peccator. We are simultaneously both ...

Texas Reads: Author writes about Johnny Cash's theology

Texas Reads: Author writes about Johnny Cash's theology ... “God's preferential concern for the poor and oppressed,” Beck writes, “runs through ...

Johnny Cash's Gospel | The New Yorker

Gospel music changed Cash's career, and the gospel of Jesus Christ changed his life. He grew up in the church, going to worship every Sunday ...

A Study of 'The Gospel According to Johnny Cash' - No Depression

In the chapter on Cash's song “The Man in Black,” for example, Beck reads Cash's lyrics through the lens of liberation theology, in which ...

AP Article: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of Johnny Cash

Growing up in a Christian family, Cash was strongly influenced by the Christian faith of his mother and especially his brother Jack who died ...

Johnny Cash Theology | Staunton Mennonite Weblog

A place to interact with recent sermons. Johnny Cash Theology. 1 John 4:11-21. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

The Life and Legacy of Johnny Cash

Amazingly, Cash was a part of two Baptist churches, a non-denominational church, and a Church of God congregation. He even considered joining ...

Johnny of the Cross by Peter M. Candler, Jr | Articles | First Things

Cash could preach to offenders and the defenseless alike, and make faith believable in a way that most of us never can. We seem to prefer the ...

Johnny Cash's Faith and Friendship With Billy Graham

Music legend Johnny Cash struggled with his faith, but never abandoned it. His bouts with substance abuse—and friendship with Billy ...

Johnny Cash: Walking the Line Between Good and Evil - Harvest.org

He was a devout Christian who divided his time between sinning and seeking forgiveness, frequently going from jail to Jesus. He was arrested ...

The Masculinity Debate Needs Johnny Cash - Christianity Today

But while Cash celebrated a kind of rugged masculinity, he was also a deeply-flawed man. His life was marked by infidelity, alcoholism, and drug ...

What Can Christians Learn from Johnny Cash?

Johnny Cash struggled with the faith he learned about as a child, but never gave up on it. What can Christians today learn from him about running the race for ...

How Hollywood De-Christianized Johnny Cash | National Review

It's an early scene in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line. The young Cash, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is auditioning for the man who ...

The Faith of Johnny Cash | Think Christian

Cash showed that doubt is itself proper to faith. A God who could not stomach the darkest moments of His creation was not worth our worship, much less a song.

Johnny Cash on scripture and commentaries - Faith and Theology

Johnny Cash wrote a novel about the conversion of the apostle Paul. I hadn't even heard of it until I was given a copy last week.

New Johnny Cash documentary focuses on his Christian faith

'More than an iconic rebel': New Johnny Cash documentary focuses on his Christian faith ... The key to understanding Johnny Cash is through his ...

Johnny Cash and the Man in White - Word on Fire

Johnny Cash is an icon of redemption that tells the story of transformative power and love of God through his music, faith, life, ...

The Torah of Johnny Cash - Lilith Magazine

As a rabbi immersed in theology, I know this first hand. When Johnny Cash sings I do not hear divisions between Jews and Christians. When Cash ...

'I wear black for the poor and beaten down': The Christian faith of ...

Having grown up in poverty, one outworking of Cash's faith was his commitment to being a voice for the underdog. From the 1960s onwards, Cash ...