“Art” Articles

It’s perpetually difficult for those who love their creativity to understand and to reconcile it with their dark sides.

It would seem that T. S. Eliot left an unequivocally Christian literary legacy. But did he?

As our only means of consuming entertainment, [binging] may turn us into fevered people impoverished for art that satisfies as only the True, the Beautiful, and the Good can.

And just as there is no one purpose for our most common and immediate medium of expression, the voice, there is likewise no one purpose for art. Art, after all, is merely voice through another medium.

Is a picture is worth a thousand words? Only if you don’t use your words properly. We make it happen in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

Both of them firmly believe that great art offers things like truth and consolation to people who need them.

More often than not, information alone doesn’t change one’s mind. Stories do.

Scott Hutchison didn’t believe in anything beyond this life, but when I talk about light that emanates from his songs, I call it spiritual. He saw a daunting, cold world and set about doing what he could to breathe warmth into it, to strive against his pride to love unselfishly, to rage against the idea that we must accept the earth in its broken state.

Art doesn’t reduce our questions and conflictedness; it multiplies them.

If the heavenly reading of Guerra’s illustration is meant to supplant the intense pain it addresses, then it’s being misread.

Our members get a discount this month on the ESV Illuminated Bible from Crossway.

If Voyager encounters alien life, what will the spacecraft and the record it carries tell about the human race?

God never intended for us to create artificial barriers between ourselves and art, one of His greatest gifts to us.

Noname’s attentiveness to the world challenges and subverts an all too familiar understanding of salvation.

Sometimes an artist has to choose between living a principled life or just living at all. The novelist Julian Barnes imagines the high cost of this choice for the composer Shostakovich under Stalin.

We mustn’t offer a knee-jerk dismissal of criticism of so-called Christian media, because sometimes it’s bad art. And bad art, even with the marketing label Christian, does not glorify the ultimate Creator.