Jonathan MartinU2’s latest is not so much a demand as an invitation to “surrender.” But will you want to?Rock and roll is generally about defiance — defying rules, defying gravity, defying age. U2, in particular, is climb-the-mountain…·8 min read·Mar 17, 2023--9--9
Jonathan MartinDave Chappelle vs. Dave ChappelleIn the highest compliment that I could imagine paying to any comedian, Dave Chappelle is the only one I can think of…who has never lost. He…·5 min read·Dec 14, 2022----
Jonathan MartinHow Yellowstone walks the line between great…and operatically dumbI can think of no artifact in recent pop culture memory as confounding or outright baffling as Yellowstone. Like “Two-Face” of Batman…·6 min read·Dec 7, 2022----
Jonathan Martin“She opened not her mouth”: on Breonna Taylor and the quest to make America unrepentant againBreonna Taylor is dead — not as a character in fiction, or as a symbol or allegory of anything. Her death is a thing to be grieved on its…·8 min read·Sep 24, 2020--1--1
Jonathan Martinhollow President, trojan horse: why Trump is not our greatest threatTwo years ago, I sparred publicly with Jerry Falwell Jr. for a week or two, igniting a heated debate on campus at Liberty University that…·17 min read·Sep 10, 2020--3--3
Jonathan MartininHuman PartsGods and Histories at War in AmericaThe monsters are surfacing, and we wait to see who will win·6 min read·Jun 20, 2020--5--5
Jonathan MartininHuman PartsChoose Your Own RealityOur competing realities share one thing in common: they invite us to undergo the demything of America·18 min read·Jun 3, 2020--8--8
Jonathan Martinon reality and revelation: for George Floyd.“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was…·10 min read·May 29, 2020--2--2
Jonathan Martintwo different videos, two different realitiesIt happened in the middle of the day. Two videos set the internet ablaze this week, for very different reasons. One, filmed in broad…7 min read·May 8, 2020----
Jonathan MartinWhy yes, I DO pray for President Trump (on hoping for his salvation…& my own)“But do you PRAY for President Trump?” As a church leader who has been outspoken about the Trump phenomenon, that is the first question…10 min read·Mar 12, 2018--4--4