The Clayfire Curator recently posted this question on their blog: “Do you use non-sacred Christmas music in December worship?“ Here was my reply & conversation with @Clayfire about it on Twitter:     Below is my longer response that I posted on their Facebook page: I didn’t mean to sound contentious with my statement. But […]

I never really learned how to write until college. I mean I could write in high school, but I didn’t really understand how to respond to a topic or a piece of literature. I’m not sure why it clicked in college, maybe those freshmen english classes did work or maybe simply a couple of years […]

Beauty. Art. Church. All things I have been thinking about for some years. For a long time I thought about them in very separate terms, then slowly the questions began to overlap and I started allowing them to dialogue with each other. Listening to questions about art and applying them to church or worries about […]

Being married to an artist, the question of the relation of art and faith is a on going discussion. It is something that comes up quite often while we explore what it means for us to be Christians living in this world, participating in bringing God’s kingdom. We find ourselves within a church with a […]

I have been watching Art:21 documentaries with the wife & kids lately. If you are not familiar, Art:21 is a PBS documentary series which explores the works & artists of contemporary visual arts; they build each episode upon a theme and pick 4-5 artists to highlight. It has been interesting looking at how these contemporary […]

In a classic example of sibling rivalry, my six year old would not allow herself to be out done by her baby sister. Here are a few examples of her recent work. It seems that a new vitality has entered her work since her summer sabbatical began at the beginning of the week. There was […]

This is pretty short and sweet, visually & intellectually beautiful. Thanks for the find, HT Peter Rollins.

2                                                                                  ? Faith?                                              Art? This week I have come back to the question of faith, Abraham, and the almost sacrifice of his son, Isaac. In my Romans class we have talked about chapter 4 which speaks specifically about the faith of Abraham. This brought out a very rich conversation about faith. For those interested, […]

A thought about the art community as a (very big) whole has been going round my brain a lot lately. Reviews about a new Rolling Stones movie being heard regularly on different media types keep bringing up the issue of age in regards to the group. Jake posted on his blog recently about artists and […]

There was an exhibit on campus which got me thinking. Someone has built a house which has been turned inside out for display in the middle of campus; the person responsible for this is doing it as part of her MFA final project thesis requirement (or whatever they call it). I sat outside to each […]