Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, playing ... Continue Reading »
Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, playing ... Continue Reading »
The Power of Words Expressed Through Performance & Poetry It all started with an open mic in Charlottesville, VA. Host Ebony Walden looked out into the audience and ... Continue Reading »
by Pat Butler, International Arts Ministry Specialist, and Mat Carson, Director of Training, OM Arts International Go anywhere in the world, talk to anyone committed to arts ministry, ... Continue Reading »
By Luci Shaw A student in a lecture hall once asked me, “Don’t you get tired of noticing things?” By way of answering her I quoted one of my ... Continue Reading »
Commencement Address at Belhaven University By Makoto Fujimura I am grateful to be given this honor: an honor that is symbolic of the commitment to the arts that Belhaven University, Dr. Roger Parrot, and ... Continue Reading »
By Lanier Ivester I was a Christian, and I was a dancer. A ballerina, as I liked to avow with all the solemnity of seventeen. Studying classical ballet three and four days out of ... Continue Reading »
February 28 – March 5, 2011 Transpositions, a collaborative blog by students associated with the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St. Andrews, is featuring an online symposium on ... Continue Reading »
In this live recording from the “Scribbling in the Sand” concert, Michael Card and Phil Keaggy perform “The Poem of Your Life,” written by Michael Card. The song is based on the apostle ... Continue Reading »
With the pen as his pulpit, George MacDonald used fiction to show the relevance of scriptural truth to the problems of his age. By Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson Many critics like to claim that George ... Continue Reading »
Five artists who captured the imagination of the church: Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael By Rachel Smith The optimism and confidence in human potential that characterized the Renaissance produced an ... Continue Reading »
The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, recently drew together over 4,000 delegates from 197 countries for a historic international gathering of Christian leaders. Held October 16-25, 2010, ... Continue Reading »
Makoto Fujimura has followed up his Letter to North American Churches with a Letter to Young Artists (based on a letter originally written for Michael Card’s book Scribbling in the Sand): We have been ... Continue Reading »
George MacDonald's legacy is his reminder that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of a Creator. By Trevor Hart Editor's note: C. S. Lewis wrote of George MacDonald, "I ... Continue Reading »
Last week we featured artist Makoto Fujimura in our Artlinks section. Makoto recently delivered a challenging letter to churches and artists at the Eighth Letter Conference for the Epiphaneia group in Toronto. ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Christy Tennant, Director of Global Community for International Arts Movement and Host of IAM Conversations Several years into my career as an actress, when I was deep in the throes of auditioning, ... Continue Reading »
Reviewed by Steven Guthrie, associate professor of theology at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and director of Belmont’s “Religion and the Arts” program A few minutes ago I was skimming through a website that ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Steve Guthrie, associate professor of theology at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and director of Belmont’s “Religion and the Arts” program In college I studied music theory and then went on to ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Christopher Mitchell, director of the Marion E. Wade Center, a major research collection of materials by and about seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, ... Continue Reading »
Reviewed by Lynn Aldrich If innocence can be described as a lack of experience, then certainly that was my condition when I first encountered a profoundly kitsch situation at the age of nine. While ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Laurel Gasque, author of Art and the Christian Mind: The Life and Work of H. R. Rookmaaker, a partner in ArtWay, and Sessional Lecturer in Theology and the Arts at Regent ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Brian Moss, Worship and Music Coordinator at Regent College in Vancouver, BC, Canada Art in the service of anything is a tough sell these days. If it is the sacred being served, ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Andrew Mark Sauerwein, assistant professor of composition and music theory at Belhaven College In The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner walks his reader through a history of the so-called “Modern System of ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by John Franklin, Executive Director of Imago The biblical story of Noah and the flood is a reminder of how moral and spiritual failure brings consequences. But the negative outcome of human ... Continue Reading »
Recommended by Andy Crouch, the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and a senior editor at Christianity Today International. Dorothy Sayers was one formidable lady. The author, most famously, of the Lord ... Continue Reading »
MISSION: Discipling Artists to Be Mission Minded “Does art imitate culture or does culture imitate art? No one can say for sure. However, no one disagrees that there is a relationship between what happens ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To enable Christians involved in the performing arts at whatever level to realize their full potential for the service of Christ. Aims: 1. To develop the whole person spiritually and artistically through ... Continue Reading »
Mission: La Fonderie exists to value, encourage, inspire, and embolden Christians working in the arts. We believe that artists who are also growing disciples of Christ should be creating culture as innovators ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To reach a secular and religiously apathetic European society with the redemptive message of Christ through the arts. The Aslan Performing Arts Centre is a non-profit cultural organization based in Madrid, Spain. As ... Continue Reading »
Mission: A.C.T. Intl exists to mobilize and equip artistic and innovative ministries and missionaries for Christian work around the world. A.C.T. Intl was founded on the conviction that God has designed the human heart, ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To see the arts become a key part of strategies for planting churches among unreached people groups. 10X Productions is an award-winning, non-profit film/media production company. Our primary purpose is to develop and ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To cultivate artistic excellence for personal growth and positive cultural direction for the Kansas City community and surrounding areas. The Culture House is Kansas City’s premier arts academy for dance, theater, and ... Continue Reading »
Mission: The performing arts world is a dark and spiritually needy place, full of broken and hurting people. For this reason, CPAF believes that the arts world is a mission field. Our organization ... Continue Reading »
Mission: The world is not as it ought to be. We long for meaningful existence and involvement in our culture—to make our world a better place and to be part of a story greater ... Continue Reading »
An arts organization with an emphasis on relationships By Dale Savidge I distinctly remember when I learned that theatre was as much about the process of creating a performance as the experiencing of a product ... Continue Reading »
A recent StoneWorks Arts Leadership Training (SALT) conference mobilized artists for mission. By Pat Butler “Pass through, pass through the gates…” In an Italian heat wave, a line of cars headed for the beaches where the ... Continue Reading »
StoneWorks/InterVarsity Arts Leaders Training 2009 By Johanna Middleton, Natalie England, Bianca Washington, Tramaine Frank, and Kyle Williams “I love you Lord, and I lift my toys!” The piano bellowed out the familiar tune as a chorus ... Continue Reading »
The 2009 European Arts Summit By David Mills Mittersill, Austria, is a picturesque village nestled at a strategic and historic trading crossroads in the Austrian Alps. Here, in the shadow of some of the Alps’ ... Continue Reading »
Can Christians spark a reformation of the arts in Australia? By Jennifer Trafton Like the sunburned shoulder of a giant, Uluru rises from the desert in the Northern Territory of Australia. Called Ayers Rock by ... Continue Reading »
StoneWorks and Operation Mobilisation Creative arts ministries have been growing within the international missions organization Operation Mobilisation (OM) for the last 10 years, but in the past year, with the help of StoneWorks, they ... Continue Reading »
By Colin Harbinson Most of us have experienced life-defining moments. One such moment came for me following the fall of the Soviet empire. A few short weeks after the world watched Boris Yeltsin defy ... Continue Reading »
A New DVD Teaching Series on the Arts by StoneWorks International Director Colin Harbinson Continue Reading »
Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, playing drums on a biscuit-tin. From living-room ... Continue Reading »
The Power of Words Expressed Through Performance & Poetry It all started with an open mic in Charlottesville, VA. Host Ebony Walden looked out into the audience and saw a glimpse of the Kingdom ... Continue Reading »
MISSION: Discipling Artists to Be Mission Minded “Does art imitate culture or does culture imitate art? No one can say for sure. However, no one disagrees that there is a relationship between what happens ... Continue Reading »
by Pat Butler, International Arts Ministry Specialist, and Mat Carson, Director of Training, OM Arts International Go anywhere in the world, talk to anyone committed to arts ministry, and you will hear the same ... Continue Reading »
Commencement Address at Belhaven University By Makoto Fujimura I am grateful to be given this honor: an honor that is symbolic of the commitment to the arts that Belhaven University, Dr. Roger Parrot, and ... Continue Reading »
Seeking expressions of interest for the position of principal at a Brisbane-based Christian dance academy. Grace Dance Academy began operating in early 2009 and was initially started as a community outreach ministry connected ... Continue Reading »
By Luci Shaw A student in a lecture hall once asked me, “Don’t you get tired of noticing things?” By way of answering her I quoted one of my favorite sayings from Annie Dillard, embodied ... Continue Reading »
The new “network of networks” seeks to connect, educate, and encourage Christians in the arts. By Luann Jennings, founder and director Church and Art Network (C&A) is a new ministry that provides helpful information and ... Continue Reading »
By Lanier Ivester I was a Christian, and I was a dancer. A ballerina, as I liked to avow with all the solemnity of seventeen. Studying classical ballet three and four days out of ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To enable Christians involved in the performing arts at whatever level to realize their full potential for the service of Christ. Aims: 1. To develop the whole person spiritually and artistically through ... Continue Reading »
Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, playing drums on a biscuit-tin. From living-room ... Continue Reading »
The Power of Words Expressed Through Performance & Poetry It all started with an open mic in Charlottesville, VA. Host Ebony Walden looked out into the audience and saw a glimpse of the Kingdom ... Continue Reading »
MISSION: Discipling Artists to Be Mission Minded “Does art imitate culture or does culture imitate art? No one can say for sure. However, no one disagrees that there is a relationship between what happens ... Continue Reading »
by Pat Butler, International Arts Ministry Specialist, and Mat Carson, Director of Training, OM Arts International Go anywhere in the world, talk to anyone committed to arts ministry, and you will hear the same ... Continue Reading »
Commencement Address at Belhaven University By Makoto Fujimura I am grateful to be given this honor: an honor that is symbolic of the commitment to the arts that Belhaven University, Dr. Roger Parrot, and ... Continue Reading »
Seeking expressions of interest for the position of principal at a Brisbane-based Christian dance academy. Grace Dance Academy began operating in early 2009 and was initially started as a community outreach ministry connected ... Continue Reading »
By Luci Shaw A student in a lecture hall once asked me, “Don’t you get tired of noticing things?” By way of answering her I quoted one of my favorite sayings from Annie Dillard, embodied ... Continue Reading »
The new “network of networks” seeks to connect, educate, and encourage Christians in the arts. By Luann Jennings, founder and director Church and Art Network (C&A) is a new ministry that provides helpful information and ... Continue Reading »
By Lanier Ivester I was a Christian, and I was a dancer. A ballerina, as I liked to avow with all the solemnity of seventeen. Studying classical ballet three and four days out of ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To enable Christians involved in the performing arts at whatever level to realize their full potential for the service of Christ. Aims: 1. To develop the whole person spiritually and artistically through ... Continue Reading »
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