First Things RSS Feed - Peter M. Candler, Jr https://www.firstthings.com/author/peter-m-candler-jr en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:52:58 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/peter-m-candler-jr 60 Johnny of the Cross https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/12/johnny-of-the-cross https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/12/johnny-of-the-cross Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0500 In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a “legend” only in death—as if death accomplishes for a musician all that he was unable to do for himself in life. Legends are often made in the manner of their death—in a helicopter crash, say, or collapsed on the bathroom floor. But Johnny Cash’s death at seventy-one on September 12 was decidedly un-legend-like: silent, slow, and unspectacular. Yet “legend” seems, if anything, not big enough a word to describe Johnny Cash.

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