The Break-Up of the Beatles — and the Fragmented Spirituality of Our Age

Fifty years ago today on April 10, 1970 the Beatles announced that they were breaking up. We now know that this had been brewing for at least two years, as the members of the band grew apart both creatively and personally. But just like there is a difference between a troubled marriage and a marriage where the couple has decided to get a divorce, so too it seemed that everything changed on that spring day half a century ago.

I remember well when I discovered that the Beatles were splitting...