The Journey of Dave Matthews through the Thresholds of Conversion

In 2019, I wrote an article for the Word on Fire website analyzing the spiritual wrestling of Dave Matthews in light of the concept of the five thresholds of conversion.

“As an evangelist especially interested in proclaiming Jesus in a postmodern context, I am uniquely engaged by musicians whose lyrics unpack some of the movements of their own spiritual journey. Postmodernity spends so much of its time acting like these questions do not exist that I love when they emerge from the creative enterprise of songwriting. It’s like as you enter these deeper places in your heart from which you write, you cannot escape the real questions that lie in those places. Songs like those teach me who people are at their core; they show what is at the heart of the human condition which, as St. John Paul II reminded us, is the “pathway for the Church.”

For this reason, I have always been fascinated by the spiritual seeking that makes its way into the songs of the Dave Matthews Band.”

Read more at the WordonFire.org!