The Genesis referred to in the title of this post is not the book in the Bible, but the band. Obviously the two are related. But they are not identical. I have started work on a book I have under contract, which I am writing together with my colleague in the Butler University School of Music Frank Felice, on Progressive Rock and Theology<\/em>. This is a genre I love, but as I\u2019ve dug into the genre through this lens, I\u2019ve been learning and discovering much more that I never knew<\/a>.<\/p>\n Genesis is one of my all-time favorite bands, and it was seeing Tony Banks playing the keyboard in a video that led me to want to learn to play. It was cousins of mine who first introduced me to more recent Genesis, and slightly older cousins who introduced me to Peter Gabriel era Genesis, giving me their copy of the LP Foxtrot. Initially I wasn\u2019t sure what to make of the surreal lyrics and jarring listening experience one encounters in songs such as the album-length Supper\u2019s Ready. Nothing I had listened to \u2013 even more recent music by Genesis \u2013 had prepared me for it. I have a different perspective now. Today in an era of video I think that something like this illustrated edition<\/a>\u00a0of the song can help one grasp the extent to which the song, like so many prog rock songs and especially extended-length suites, tells a story. And what a story it is! The ending, if nothing else, will make clear to you why this song has to get attention in any book about theology and progressive rock. Yet the band members never seem to have been explicitly interested in theology per se. And so how does one make sense of the imagery taken straight out of the Book of Revelation that brings this song that fills almost an entire side of an album to its remarkable conclusion?<\/p>\n