In the days of the Coronavirus, our lives have been changed suddenly and forever. A few weeks ago, people all over the world were settled in the routines of a new year: children in school, parents at work, Christians gathering on Sundays for worship. But for several weeks, something had
Every Christmas, family tradition dictates that I travel up country to celebrate the festivities. One thing I love about long drives up country is the scenery along the way. My favorite stop is the Great Rift Valley. The landscape of the expansive rift extending thousands of kilometers in either direction
A human life is incomplete without the arts. If the “unexamined life is not worth living” as the ancient Greeks said, in the same way, a life without the experience and enjoyment of beauty is not a completely realized life. The Christian worldview takes into account the individual as a
How should Christians use the arts to proclaim the gospel? In the past, Europe enthroned reason. Seeing the terrible and devastating consequences, the West decided to adopt the even newer and more devastating attitude of irrationality. Can a Christian living in the midst of this post-Christian situation still proclaim the
The Frankfurt School, and three major events—World War I, Russia’s Communist Revolution, and World War II—all had a powerful influence in creating the new mindset in the West. But not these only. A very influential group of French thinkers belong on the same list. These include J. Paul Sartre; Simone
The horrors in La Pampa, Peru must stop. Recently it was my honor to facilitate an arts workshop, The Call of the Balladeers, in Medellin, Colombia, for 125 young Christian artists from 12 Latin countries. The purpose of the workshop was to equip and encourage aspiring Christian artists to use
Martin Luther The role of the arts in spreading a Christian worldview is a frequent theme in this space. Darrow Miller often points out that the church largely abandoned the study and practice of the arts generations ago and we are reaping the fruit of that today. The world’s music
On May 10, 1933, in the Unter den Linden square near the University of Berlin, 40,000 cheering Germans celebrated the burning of 20,000 books in a huge bonfire. This was the first book burning in what would become a ritual throughout Germany. The books were deemed to be outside the
When speaking to young people, I often mention the role of the artist in shaping culture. People are curious about what I mean, thus begins a discussion of the concept of the balladeer. I am careful to distinguish between artists who use their art for worship or evangelism and those
Is art to lead us in the pursuit of truth, goodness and and the beautiful? The culture of the kingdom of God is marked by Truth, Beauty and Goodness, the cultural trinity. (We have written about this here.) The West was built upon the pursuit of this trinity, born out
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