We’ve heard the suspicions, especially lately with the health care debate. People do not trust that the government can do anything well. I’v...

I’ve been reading Miroslav Volf’s absolutely excellent book, Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work . In the final chapter, he moves ...

Wisdom. Moyers is a Christian with a bias against plutocracy. I'm with him on this.

Skye Jethani’s recent posts at Out of Ur ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ) are a clarion-call for churches to re-imagine their purpose and functi...

As artists engage in the four chapters of the biblical narrative (Creation-Fall-Redemption-Restoration), they offer insight into the cha...

In my last post , I asked, “What would it look like if a new generation of Christians took seriously the task of being subversive prophetic ...

I have already stated emphatically that art is good simply because it is creative. Art glorifies God simply by being imaginative and origina...

In what has been called the “Great Commandment” of Mark 12:28-31 and Matthew 22:34–40, Jesus tells us that we must love the Lord our God and...

God, through the prophet Jeremiah, not only tells those in the Babylonian exile to live holy lives, he also gives them a calling as they liv...

For the past month, I’ve been exploring a proper Christian engagement with popular cultural art. If Art is to be “Missional,” then artists m...

There is a superior way to deal with culture rather than the pietistic path of arbitrarily deciding what in the culture is bad and then shun...

In my experience in church ministries, I have found that the pastoral staffs get so caught up in the daily workings of church ministry t...

There is a deeper discipleship of discernment that Christ is calling his followers to practice when it comes to patronizing the arts. It i...

In his excellent book, Culture Making, Andy Crouch’s fourth “posture” that he observes in evangelical Christianity is the current trend of “...