The Cult, Fear, and Myth of the New: Three (conflicting) Narratives
In a recent article titled How to Discourage Artists in the Church, Philip G. Ryken suggests that ‘[m]any Christian artists live between two strange worlds,’…
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Entertaining Ourselves: Communal Creativity and Life Together
We used to entertain ourselves. Anyone who has read Jane Austen knows that in the evenings of the era, people would gather in the…
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Making Room for Others: Creative Genius and Theology
This post is long overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway. In a 2009 TED Talk titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat,…
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Finding Beauty through the Practice of Creating: An Artist’s Reflection
I am a painter, designer, curator and creative strategist living and working in Philadelphia who trained in painting and design at The University of…
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Creativity as a Battle: Artists and Academics [Part Two]
In my previous post, I suggested three areas of common ground between academics and artists with the final being that both participate in creative…
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Artists and Academics: What They Might Have in Common
Over the New Year, I had the pleasure of regularly sitting at a long dinner table with a group of artists, delighting in the…
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The Dandy Imago Dei: Toward an Incarnational Aesthetics in Kierkegaard
Oscar Wilde once declared that he only put his talent into his works; his true genius, he insisted, had been reserved for his life….
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Connecting the Dots
It happens to pretty much everyone at an early age. You’re handed a paper smothered in dots, and are instructed to carefully draw lines…
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Visual Lectio Divina
I remember the first time I experienced Lectio Divina. More importantly, I remember the verse I memorized that evening and the key phrase that…
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