“Beauty” Articles

Courtney Ellis’s careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.

We must not allow suffering to obstruct us from having the experiences that make life most worth living.

At the heart of Station Eleven is a conflict between affirmation of Life and negation of Life. Affirmation wins.

Till We Have Faces expresses the way in which Christian storytelling at its best has the potential to work upon people.

Whereas the world of addictive pleasure teaches us to feel, the world of beauty teaches us to sacrifice: to go beyond attention to the self and give attention toward another.

We’re three months into 2021. Is it everything you hoped? Or nothing like you dreamed? For many of us, the excitement has worn off, and the hard work of renewal has begun.

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

We find echoes of Eden in so many cultural artifacts, even video games.

Fifty years after its initial publication, The Last Unicorn still retains its power.

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

A fallen world displays a prodigal beauty, even a horrendous beauty at times.

In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson discuss the ways that women chase after beauty.

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

ABZÛ’s unfamiliarity emphasizes a deeper wonder behind beauty that we seldom acknowledge in our lives, much less in our games.

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.

The power of street art grabs you when you don’t expect it and forces you to pay attention, which can lead to an appreciation of beauty everywhere.