Songs soaked in Scripture?

Matt MacGregor | Reviews

Date posted: 1 Aug 2023

Songs soaked in Scripture?

It began with a picture of the Tower of Babel on Facebook.

Here was Dutch Renaissance painter Abel Grimmer’s depiction of Genesis 11 with the title of the band Leeland’s latest album: City of God. I was intrigued. Why had this Grammy-nominated Christian band mixed Augustine’s arguably most famous work with a picture of what Augustine described as its antithesis? I decided to delve deeper.

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