By William D. Taylor Connections, the journal of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission, is delighted to release this first information on the special double issue (100 pages, ... Continue Reading »
By William D. Taylor Connections, the journal of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission, is delighted to release this first information on the special double issue (100 pages, ... Continue Reading »
From ancient times, human beings have used both practical and poetic language. By Randall Smith When I get to the poetry section of English 102—where sunsets look like ... Continue Reading »
Choreographing for people of various abilities—and disabilities—has shown me how many ways there are to glorify God with our bodies. By Cynthia Newland “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, ... Continue Reading »
Thoughts on faith and music by world-famous piano technician Franz Mohr “He is an Institution, a Living Legend, an Icon in the World of Steinway. Throughout the piano ... 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 »
Mission: To exercise a biblically based influence on the arts in Canada and on Canadian cultural life. Established in 1972 by the well-known Christian leader Wilber Sutherland, Imago carries a mandate to promote, support, ... Continue Reading »
Mission: Fusion’s broader vision is to bring young people and their communities together with hope. Its arts mission is to bring the skills and creativity of artists into meaningful connection with the wider ... Continue Reading »
Mission: Belhaven is a Christian liberal arts university that prepares students academically and spiritually to serve Christ Jesus in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas. Belhaven affirms the Lordship ... Continue Reading »
Mission: To educate the next generation of classical musicians using a holistic approach to music instruction, one that offers a challenging curriculum set in an environment of Christian love and compassion. The vision of ... Continue Reading »
Rembrandt's art, like his life, traced the contours of sin and grace. By Laurel Gasque Perhaps no other artist captures the imagination and the heart of a worldwide audience more than Rembrandt van Rijn (July ... Continue Reading »
Reading may not change the world -- but it changes the reader, and that's a start. By Katherine Paterson The summer that I was 17 years old, I, who was born of missionary parents in China, was ... Continue Reading »
Fueled by his Lutheran faith, J. S. Bach devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. By Calvin R. Stapert In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary ... Continue Reading »
How can the arts uniquely unlock the truths of the gospel for a new generation? In 1997, Jeremy Begbie launched the “Theology Through the Arts” project “to show how the arts of our ... Continue Reading »
The early church developed a visual language to express their faith in art. By Jennifer Hevelone-Harper Our college recently built a large chapel designed in the style of a traditional New England church, with a ... Continue Reading »
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel make a profound statement about the creation story—and the artist's own creativity. By James Romaine Every year more than 3,000,000 pilgrims and tourists from around the world flock to ... Continue Reading »
C. S. Lewis employed his imaginative gifts to dispel his readers' illusions and educate their feelings. By Doris T. Myers In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of the Narnia series, Eustace, a factual-minded, ... Continue Reading »
SIL International helps artists with an interest in cross-cultural research to become Arts Consultants: people who work alongside local singers, actors, dancers, storytellers, and visual artists to spark the creation of new songs, ... Continue Reading »
Project Dance (http://www.projectdance.com/) has just released its 2010 Recap Video, which offers a colorful peek into this unique movement to "positively impact culture through artistic integrity" and bring the gift of dance to ... Continue Reading »
N. T. Wright is an internationally respected New Testament scholar and author of such widely read books as Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope. In a May 18, 2005, lecture at Seattle Pacific University, he ... 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 »
Recommended by Timothy R. Botts, professional calligrapher and senior art director for Tyndale House Publishers Chaim Potok’s Orthodox Jewish background comes through vividly in My Name Is Asher Lev and its sequel The Gift ... 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 »
By William D. Taylor Connections, the journal of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission, is delighted to release this first information on the special double issue (100 pages, full color) dedicated to the visionary ... 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 »
Rembrandt's art, like his life, traced the contours of sin and grace. By Laurel Gasque Perhaps no other artist captures the imagination and the heart of a worldwide audience more than Rembrandt van Rijn (July ... Continue Reading »
Witnessing to our faith in Christ is deeply embedded in the theology and mission of the Church. Should artists witness through their art? By Colin Harbinson In mid-sixties Britain, when “Beatlemania” was all the rage ... Continue Reading »
Reading may not change the world -- but it changes the reader, and that's a start. By Katherine Paterson The summer that I was 17 years old, I, who was born of missionary parents in China, was ... Continue Reading »
From ancient times, human beings have used both practical and poetic language. By Randall Smith When I get to the poetry section of English 102—where sunsets look like “etherized patients” and subway riders resemble ... 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 »
Fueled by his Lutheran faith, J. S. Bach devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. By Calvin R. Stapert In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary ... 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 »
How can the arts uniquely unlock the truths of the gospel for a new generation? In 1997, Jeremy Begbie launched the “Theology Through the Arts” project “to show how the arts of our ... Continue Reading »
By William D. Taylor Connections, the journal of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission, is delighted to release this first information on the special double issue (100 pages, full color) dedicated to the visionary ... 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 »
Rembrandt's art, like his life, traced the contours of sin and grace. By Laurel Gasque Perhaps no other artist captures the imagination and the heart of a worldwide audience more than Rembrandt van Rijn (July ... Continue Reading »
Witnessing to our faith in Christ is deeply embedded in the theology and mission of the Church. Should artists witness through their art? By Colin Harbinson In mid-sixties Britain, when “Beatlemania” was all the rage ... Continue Reading »
Reading may not change the world -- but it changes the reader, and that's a start. By Katherine Paterson The summer that I was 17 years old, I, who was born of missionary parents in China, was ... Continue Reading »
From ancient times, human beings have used both practical and poetic language. By Randall Smith When I get to the poetry section of English 102—where sunsets look like “etherized patients” and subway riders resemble ... 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 »
Fueled by his Lutheran faith, J. S. Bach devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. By Calvin R. Stapert In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary ... 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 »
How can the arts uniquely unlock the truths of the gospel for a new generation? In 1997, Jeremy Begbie launched the “Theology Through the Arts” project “to show how the arts of our ... Continue Reading »
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