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Culture • Christianity & Culture

If Vincent Van Gogh Could Have Met C. S. Lewis

Randy Newman | 9 min read

In the same instant, I felt both disappointment and inspiration. Does that seem contradictory? It didn’t at the time. In fact, I was thankful for both. My wife and I had been strolling joyfully on a walking tour through Arles, France. As a part of an “In the footsteps of Van Gogh” tour, we arrived...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

The Art of Meditation and The Meditation of Art

Randy Newman | 11 min read

If someone asked me what my favorite work of art is, I would not be able to answer. I would start listing favorites (plural) and say why selecting just one would create too many headaches for me. But if someone asked me which work of art I have looked at most in my life, the...

Culture • Popular Culture

The Seven Basic Plots and the One Basic Plot: Cosper, Booker, and The Stories We Tell

Will Herron | 9 min read

Being parents of young children, it was a rare occasion (even pre-pandemic!) when my wife and I were able to get out to dinner and a movie. Our last cinema outing had ended with us both falling asleep (an unfortunate reflection of our engagement with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug). On this occasion, however,...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Culture is Upstream from Politics: 50 Responses

Dr. Steven Garber | 56 min read

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016. When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on The Tabernacle: The Spiritual Gift of Creating Beauty

Becca Hermes | 6 min read

For my whole adult life, I have wrestled with having creative talents. Some artists know with certainty, early on, what they were made to do. They delight in the joy of creating just as surely as their creative Heavenly Father delighted in creating them. But that certainty has not been my story. My soul comes...

Culture • Popular Culture

Seeing Seamlessly

Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read

“So he had lived in childhood and adolescence in the same country rectory, taking part each Sunday in a familiar liturgy which reflected, interpreted and sanctified the changing seasons of the farming year.” Reading one more novel of P.D. James, a master of murder mysteries who understands us, glorious ruins that we are, knowing the...

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