This week, I had the privilege to write for my friends at Canon & Culture, the blogging arm of the ERLC. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Policy aside for a moment, perhaps a more foundational question is whether artists and entertainers have any business influencing legislation in the first place. Many Christians would ratherContinue reading ““Should Artists Protest?” (New at Canon & Culture)”
Category Archives: Art
“The New First Day” an Easter Poem
Below is a poem I wrote while pondering the significance of the New Covenant begun through Jesus’ death and resurrection. Particularly, I focused on the significance that Christ laid in the grave on the Sabbath but rose on the First day of the week. May it renew your heart’s longing for our Risen Savior as weContinue reading ““The New First Day” an Easter Poem”
Don’t Jesus Movies Break the 2nd Commandment?
{Robbie Schmidtberger is the Church Planting Resident at Grace and Peace Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA.} Tense is a good word to describe the American church’s relationship with the artistic community. On the one hand, Christians heralded movies like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Christopher Spencer’s Son of God, and Mark Burnett’s The BibleContinue reading “Don’t Jesus Movies Break the 2nd Commandment?”
Does a Christian Artist Have to Make “Christian” Art?
Do Christians have to paint pictures of crosses, shepherds, and slain lambs? Is a band selling out when it chooses to write less “Christian” lyrics on their newest album? Does every movie produced by Christians have to have an evangelistic/apologetic bent? Alex Medina writes at The Gospel Coalition, “Out of our zeal we have only givenContinue reading “Does a Christian Artist Have to Make “Christian” Art?”
A Poetic Response to the Science vs. Faith Debate
Often, artistic expression has a way of driving to the point better than logical and deductive reasoning can. After we have become tired with all the arguments, discussions, and reasoning, a poem has the ability to blow open the truth of the matter. Some of us are still hanging out in the foamy eddies, bobbingContinue reading “A Poetic Response to the Science vs. Faith Debate”
Transfiguration by Raphael
Many painters of the past were theologians who happened to use brush and pigment instead of pen and ink. Consider Transfiguration by Raphael. I was pointed to it by J. Monro Gibson, D.D. in his 1889 commentary on Matthew’s Gospel. In his comments about the descent from the mount of transfiguration he says, “It isContinue reading “Transfiguration by Raphael”