Prophetic and poetic: in praise of heavy metal

Why the Church Times is right to laud Iron Maiden et alHere's a sentence you might not expect to read in the Church Times, courtesy of the Rev Rachel Mann: "Metal has no fear of human darkness. It calls the Church to discover a liberative theology of darkness: darkness not understood as negative, but as a place of possibility." Her suggestion, in the latest issue, that Britain's Anglicans have much to learn from heavy metal will doubtless raise eyebrows at jumble sales and coff...

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