Joel Heng Hartse

Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll: My Life on Record - Experiences in Evangelicalism Joel Heng Hartse

Church camp sing-alongs gone horribly wrong, infatuation with Christian contemporary music, teenage love set to an indie rock soundtrack, playing rock music in churches and church music in rock clubs, betrayal by Christian bands-Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll is a book about how listening to music makes us who we are, and an exploration of the intersections between evangelical church culture and the pop music scene. In these essays Joel Heng Hartse, a know-it-all pop critic whose musical past includes more MxPx than AC/DC, combines laugh-out-loud humor with thoughtful reflection to describe how his obsession with rock and roll has shaped his faith, and how living in the shadow of God and guitars can transform us all.