Bozeman Brothers: Do Parallel Lines Touch?

I fell in love with the music of Luxury when their bass player Chris Foley became my theology student. His band mates, Jamey and Lee Bozeman, came to seminary a couple of years later. Over time I came to learn their deeper stories, as a band and as individuals. Their music continues to blow me away, and their lives touch me deeply. All three of them have become priests in the Orthodox Church. How they make it all work — in the studio and the concert venue, and at the altar — makes for a compelling conversation, I think.

Not long ago another band member, Matt Hinton, made a riveting and award-winning documentary about the band that you simply have to see, whether you’re into indie/new-wave or not, whether you’re Orthodox or not, whether you believe in God or not. That’s because of the remarkable story it tells, but also the themes that it raises, such as, what does the world do with a band like this? How do religion and an apparently secular art mix? How explicit do you make your beliefs? (Some artists wear their religion on their sleeve. Others keep that inner flame unseen, even as it burns hot.) Check out the movie — Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury — streamable everywhere.

Fr. James, Fr. David, and Fr. Chris and I have all kept touch over the years, much to my joy. And now to yours as well.