Where the Streets Have No Name
Jul 20, 2025 • Rev. Mark Feldmeir
If you’re old enough to have lived through the 1980s, it’s hard to conceive of a more resonant symbol than the Joshua Tree to embody the spiritual yearning of an entire generation at a time when the spiritual landscape of America was shifting, even eroding. The 1980s was, in the eye of many, a decade of spiritual ruin. We had some great achievements in the 80s—
like leg warmers and parachute pants, the Rubik’s Cube and boom boxes, MTV and the Walkman. But, spiritually speaking, it
was as if—to borrow a phrase from Bono—God had left the building. – Rev Mark Feldmeir