I sat down the other night to make a list of topics I wanted to post about. One of them is the question of whether or not artists need to be in the Church in order to make art for the Church. My answer might be a little surprising considering how passionate I am about [...]
“Like the biblical prophet, the artist is often an outsider, one who stands apart and delivers a challenge to the community. The prophets of old employed many of the same tricks used by writers and artists: lofty rhetoric, apocalyptic imagery, biting satire, lyrical evocations of better times, and subversive irony. To be sure, the true [...]
Driving around the other day I was following a car with a license plate frame that read, ‘If you’re living like there’s no God, you’d better be right.’ I had two reactions to that. My first, sarcastic reaction was wondering if anyone seriously thinks that license plate frame has ever caused a non-Christian driver to [...]
I had the greatest church experience I’ve had in a long time this last weekend. Know where it was? It wasn’t in any cathedral, sanctuary, or chapel. Nor was it in any amphitheater, auditorium, or high school gym. No, it was sitting in the living room of my family’s cabin up on Camano Island with [...]
One of the things that’s funny to me about the whole glass half-empty/half-full thing is that I’m really actually a hopeful person. I was nicknamed Eeyore by my former boss, and I do tend to be a realist, but especially with problems outside of our control they are just great reminders that we can’t do [...]
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