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Why Christians Are Creating More ‘Edgy’ Art, by Randy Elrod

Thursday, April 12, 2012

If you are an artist who also happens to be a Christian, expect to be judged and misunderstood. by Randy Elrod If you are an artist who also happens to be a Christian, expect to be judged and misunderstood. If you are a Christian and an artist, you live in the tension of creating art [...]

The Action Oriented Artist, by Joey O’Conner

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The world will never experience the beauty, truth, and goodness of God through your art if you don’t take action. by Joey O’Connor The Action Figure As a boy, I loved action-figures. GI Joe was my hero and if there was one guy I’d ever want in my foxhole, it was him. I had the [...]

Glee Faith Episode ‘Grilled Cheesus’ Explores Two Approaches to ‘Christian’ Faith

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

I was deeply moved by Glee’s “faith” episode ("Grilled Cheesus" 10/8/2010). It was honest, awesome television, and the highest rated Glee episode of all time.

It’s a Wonderful Life and the Courage to Live (and Create Art) Idealistically

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Few of us will ever get an invitation to an early screening of our life’s work like George did. Yet we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. To be a two handed warrior is to live for that heavenly red carpet affair, not its pale imitation at the Kodak theatre.

Capra’s Tale of a Depressed Idealist: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 2

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) provides a wonderful expression of the complicated interplay between modern Physicalism and Idealism as life-interpreting stories in the life of its main character, George Bailey.

It’s a Wonderful Worldview: Frank Capra’s Theistic Masterpiece, by Gary David Stratton

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais’s atheism joke and his holiday message in the Wall Street Journal, “Why I’m An Atheist,” provide a perfect backdrop for examining one of Hollywood's most famous attempts to defend Theism–It’s a Wonderful Life.

Helping Christian Artists Succeed, by Kenyon Adams

Thursday, July 28, 2011

by Kenyon Adams in Relevant Kenyon Adams is a singer, songwriter and actor with a passion to see artists living out their kingdom callings. In addition to his life as a professional artist, Kenyon currently works in Arts Ministries at the Center for Faith & Work, Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, where he continues to [...]

Is Preaching Performance Art?

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

As I’ve noted in Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God, the leaders of America’s First Great Awakening recognized that societal transformation was every bit as much a media revolution as it was a spiritual movement. No one represented this approach better than George Whitefield, the man who Yale historian Harry Stout identifies as ‘America’s first [...]

This is your Brain on Beethoven! Understanding the NeuroScience of Music

Friday, May 6, 2011

The relationship between music and science is more complicated (and beautiful) than you ever imagined I love the interplay between art and science, because it often demonstrates my conviction that we have more than one set of “senses” by which we interpret reality. While our five physical senses–touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell–are critical for apprehending [...]

The Myth of the Starving Artist – Survey of 13,000 Arts Program Grads Reveals Fulfillment and (gasp) Employment!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

First major survey of arts grads finds that, despite low pay, respondents report high levels of employment and fulfillment. by Dan Berrett in Inside Higher Ed - May 3, 2011 Conventional wisdom has long-held that pursuing a career in the arts is a likely ticket to a life of perennial unhappiness, hunger and unemployment. But the [...]