Category: Beauty/Aesthetics
Francis Schaeffer and the Arts: A Retrospective
I am delighted to be able to publish this guest feature from Dr. William Edgar of Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. Edgar is the author of Francis Schaeffer on the Christian Life: Countercultural Spirituality published by Crossway.
An Interview with Laura Dunn, Director of “The Seer”
Tomorrow I hope to publish a brief review of Laura Dunn’s new film “The Seer.” It’s a unique film and a hard one to pin down because while it is a portrait of Wendell Berry, Berry himself is never actually...
Who says memorialism isn’t “sacramental”?
In the latest iteration of that interminable meme beloved by traditionalist conservatives everywhere, “Everything is terrible because of Protestantism” Peter Leithart has argued that Protestants cannot write because of our impoverished theology of the sacraments. His argument, particularly in part...
A World Where Love Can Be at Home–Josh Ritter and Francis Schaeffer
“Christianity should never give any onlooker the right to conclude that Christianity believes in the negation of life.” — Francis Schaeffer I’ve often wondered what might happen if Josh Ritter, one of my favorite modern songwriters, were ever to meet Francis...
Noah: A Theological-Aesthetic Rorschach Test
Last week saw the premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, and with it a (predictable) storm of controversy from the evangelical community. Reviews have ranged from predictably critical to outright disdain to hostile readings, and from strongly (though not unreservedly) positive...
Things I’ve Learned From C.S. Lewis
The world didn’t take much notice of C.S. Lewis on November 22, 1963, the day he died. It was too frenzied by the shocking assassination of John F. Kennedy, which occurred in Dallas about an hour after Lewis died in...
Beauty and Power in Church Architecture
Last month, I began to build the case that Evangelicals possess an aesthetic that is reasoned, deliberative, and theologically informed. Contra the critics who charge that beauty is neglected in Evangelical circles, I find the comeliness in multipurpose worship centers...
Evangelical Tracts and Real Art: Gungor and Creation’s Goodness
You know music has power when it has you shivering while running in hundred-degree heat. Güngör’s Ghosts Upon the Earth is like that, though. From the opening track, the album screams its willingness to be and do something terribly different...
Truth, Beauty, and Rob Bell
My friend Trevin Wax says wise things in response to Francis Chan’s book on hell: What is needed is a response that takes into consideration the beauty of Truth. We’ve got the truth portion down when it comes to propositions....
Your Friday Moment of Zen
Brought to you, naturally enough, by people in the forest with lots of small pieces of wood and video cameras: Never did Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring sound quite so natural. Too bad it’s an advertisement.