Beauty is one of God’s gifts to the world. We’ve written about beauty lots of times. A couple of recent posts were How to Disciple a Nation with a Paintbrush and Art for the Community’s Sake: Christians Using Art to Shape the Culture. I can’t help thinking about something Dr. Larry Ward
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Eric Metaxas, author and worldview observer, recently wrote an article on Breakpoint (Not Sermons but Stories) on a topic near and dear to us here at Darrow Miller and Friends. He wrote about the influence and driving power of worldview on the artist and on the power of the artist
By Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten Castle, Germany., Public Domain “Can a Christian be a fashion designer?” That question was put to me recently after I taught a session on worldview and life work to a group of young
Is beauty really “in the eye of the beholder”? We are repeatedly assured that there is no objective standard by which to judge art. Art is a “level playing field,” they tell us. Value, like taste, is culturally and individually defined. To this way of thinking, it’s prosaic at best
A number of years ago my wife, Marilyn, and I had the privilege of attending a Christian arts festival in Estes Park, Colorado. One afternoon we decided to visit the dance venue where we witnessed Mona and Jeremiah Enna dance. I commented to Marilyn that something was different about the Ennas.
My friends know that, for good or ill, I am neither technically oriented nor have much appreciation of pop music. Yet I was very interested when a friend recently showed me a tribute to Steve Jobs from Bono. I do know that Apple computer owners from the very beginning have loved
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 Christian artists today have a terrible conflict understanding the purpose of their gift. If their work does not talk about Jesus directly, does it still have value? Can they work on productions with non-Christians? When some see a magnificent building, painting,
The folks over at The Gospel Coalition recently blogged about an individual whose legacy has had a big impact in Discipling Nations Alliance: Francis Schaeffer. Darrow Miller spent time at L’Abri and cites Schaeffer’s mentoring as one of the primary influences in his life. Readers who are new to Schaeffer’s thought
A few years ago, friends in Puerto Rico introduced me to one of the “fingerprints” of God. Known as Fibonacci’s Golden Rectangle or the Fibonacci sequence, Fibonacci’s numbers were first published in the West in Liber Abaci (1202) by the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa. Like many people, I have pondered the
The Visible Reveals the Invisible The invisible God created the visible universe (Hebrews 11:3) and that visible universe reveals the invisible God and other things that are “self-evident.” We see this in two assertions. The first claim is found in Romans 1: 18-23,where the Apostle Paul writes: For the wrath
