Review: Art, Imagination, and Christian Hope
Trevor Hart, Gavin Hopps, and Jeremy Begbie, eds. Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012, xi + 193 pp.,…
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Le Mur pour la Paix: Art with a political message?
Paris is a feast for those interested in culture and the arts. After my post last week on Barbara Nicolosi’s chapter in For the…
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The Wound and The Coyote: Joseph Beuys’ Spiritual Vision
If you come in a space with a big flame of fire you will get burnt, and you cannot say: ‘This is the symbol…
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Where does our service lie?: The Christian Artist and the Church (Part 2)
Last week I brought up the topic of how we might think about the relationship of the artist to the church, raising some questions…
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Serving Clients with Bad Taste
My previous post on cakes has provoked a good deal of comment, and one of those comments, as well as Sara’s post on autonomy,…
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The Worldview Behind the Work of Art: Five Cautionary Statements
Analysing a work of art by constructing a worldview that supposedly shapes the work of art or is embodied by the work of art…
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Where Does our Service Lie?: The Christian Artist and the Church (Part 1)
How are Christian artists meant to relate to the church? This is a question that has plagued us for centuries, and I definitely don’t…
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6 Times in Edinburgh
If you happen to take a stroll along the Leith Walk in Edinburgh, look out for the man in a pink bikini. Antony Gormley…
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Illuminating the Bible
When I was young, one of my parents would end our meal together by pulling me up on their lap and reading a story…
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