Leith School of Art: A College of the Visual Arts with a Christian Foundation
Lindsay Brown, the International Director of the Lausanne Congress, believes that Leith School of Art is the only college of the visual arts with…
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Generosity of Spirit: A Perspective on Faith, Art and Teaching
During my graduate studies at Indiana University I encountered a way of thinking that not only resonated with my faith but also changed my…
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Looking Comes First
In The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis spins a yarn in which denizens of hell are given a bus-trip to the lowlands of heaven…
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Review: Creator Spirit
Review of Steven R. Guthrie, Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011). In what…
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The Digital Age and Arts Patronage: Part 2
In a previous post, I argued that one of the ways we can understand the digital age’s impact on arts patronage is in terms…
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Reflections on “Hospitable Texts: New Approaches to Religion & Literature”
In the heart of London, by Trafalgar Square and the National Galleries, sits the Notre Dame University London Center. From the 14-16 July 2011,…
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The Prophetic Power of Alexa Meade’s Living Portraits
A favourite poster of mine, and one that has accompanied me half way around the world, is Sea-Dancer by the futurist Gino Severini, painted…
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What is the value of censorship? Here are two reasons why artists might be pleased to find institutions exercising censorship…
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Avoiding Deadly Doctrine
“It is the immemorial dream of the talentless that a sufficient devotion to doctrine will produce art.” -David Mamet, Theatre The American playwright and…
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