A new film explores Johnny Cash’s spirituality but comes across as an exercise in proselytizing.
By the movie’s account, Cash simply sobered up after Nickajack and enjoyed a stable, substance-free four-decade marriage to June Carter Cash. In reality, Cash’s marriage was tumultuous; at one point, Carter had an attorney draw up divorce papers. And bothOccasionally, the film does stumble upon an interesting point, like the idea that Cash’s acclaimed 2002 cover of Nine Inch Nails’was his own unconventional iteration of gospel music.
Which is kind of Greg Laurie’s thing: The pastor, an executive producer of the film, grew up in what heas the “Jesus movement” of the 1970s, in which the earliest seeds of Contemporary Christian Music were planted. In recent years, Laurie has written a series of books that use cultural figures’ varying degrees of commitment to Jesus as a means of spreading his own evangelism. “It appears John Lennon had an encounter with Christ,” Laurie.
Whether or not Cash himself would have approved of his faith, and his very life, being co-opted in this manner is up for debate. As the author Michael Stewart Foley argues in last year’s book, the country icon has been used as a “blank screen” to project a wide spectrum of political identities since his death, from the Christian right to the progressive left.
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