Ever since we started Eternity Bible College in 2004, we have been training students to understand deeply the biblical view of the world and to apply that truth in every area of their lives. And we mean every area. While we have proudly sent many of our graduates into the...
Whenever I teach on the relationship between Christianity and art, there are always questions about how evangelistic our art should be. Christians are commanded to communicate the gospel. And art is a means of communication. So shouldn’t we be putting crosses in our paintings and verses in our poetry?...
As I parked my car for our early morning pre-service band rehearsal and pulled my guitar out of the trunk, I realized that I had already been worshiping. No, Chris Tomlin had not been on my car stereo, nor was I listening to sermon podcasts. I hadn’t meant to...
Charles Darwin saw glory in this world. He couldn’t help it. His vocation as a scientist forced him to stare at all of the crazy and beautiful things in the world on a regular basis. You can’t look at this world for any length of time without seeing the...
I love staring at people. I don’t even know how to say it in a less creepy way. People are just plain fascinating.
I first got a taste for people watching when I was dating my wife. She studied kids in college. Seriously. She was a child development major. So...
I have been trying to learn how to "be"—as in "Be still and know…" It is so hard to downshift, to stop my mind from doing NASCAR laps, to stop "doing" and truly disengage. So hard. Our 21st century American culture is not friendly toward such an attitude.
But here...
Why are we drawn to beautiful things? Why do 3.5 million people visit Yosemite National Park every year? Why do we plant flowers, paint our house, choose just the right car, have a closet full of clothes, go to art museums? We are drawn to beauty and to beautiful...
A year ago, our students created an Art & Music Benefit. I’m not exaggerating when I say that it was amazing.
First, it was amazing because it was students taking an interest in their school and playing a part in supporting and advancing the school. I’m talking about 18 to...
Over the past four posts, I have offered four reasons why Christians should care about the arts. With the exception of my first point, these reasons have focused on the utility of the arts. In other words, I have been arguing that we should care about the arts because...
Christians tend to be suspicious of the arts. It hasn’t always been that way, but the Protestant tradition in particular has always had an awkward relationship to artistic expression (as opposed to propositional statements). Some key figures in the Reformation responded to the idolatry they saw in the artistry...