Encountering God Through Art: Some Issues
Often on this blog, we have talked about ways in which the arts might help us encounter God. In this, my last regular post…
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Featured Artist: Wayne Adams
Wayne Adams is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Calvin College (1996), and then an MFA…
Read MoreA Bunch of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Revelation
‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’ These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at…
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To sit in its shadow: Church, Art, and Layers of Meaning
To the left of the altar in Old Saint Pauls Episcopal Church (Edinburgh) sits a memorial chapel. In that chapel is perhaps one of…
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Further up and Farther in
As a philosopher of religion, I spend most of my professional writing time considering the theological significance of pain and suffering. As a human…
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Dance and Feeling in Christian Mission
After serving thirty years in a mission organization and truly struggling to “find my place” as an artist, it has been a delight to…
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Arts and Mission – Reluctant Partners
This piece was modified from a blog entry for the Lausanne Global Conversation. It is published with the written consent of The Lausanne Movement….
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Introducing a Week on Art and Mission
The arts have often found an uneasy place in the area of mission. When so many issues are at stake in mission work, how…
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Children of Eden – A World in Search of a Gospel
In a previous post, I outlined C.S. Lewis’s guidelines for a Christian journal, in which he suggests that Christians who do have evangelistic aims…
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