David Dark is an American writer and public intellectual. He is the author of several books, including Life’s Too Short To Pretend You’re Not Religious: Revised & Reframed, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything; Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons, The Possibility of America; and, forthcoming, We Become What We Normalize and Explain All These Controls: U2 and the Inner America.
His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Pitchfork, Paste, America magazine, The Christian Century, and Religion News Service. Dark teaches in incarcerated communities and at Belmont University. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his partner Sarah Masen.