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Illustrating the Catechism for Children with Natasha Kennedy & Dr. Todd Hains (Podcast)
Read more: Illustrating the Catechism for Children with Natasha Kennedy & Dr. Todd Hains (Podcast)In this episode we’re closing out our short mini-series on Children’s Bibles and Children’s Books by chatting with Natasha Kennedy, who is a freelance designer, graphic novelist, and illustrator of the FatCat Series, and Dr. Todd Hains, who is Associate Publisher of Acquisitions and Development for Lexham Press at Faithlife, and author of the books…
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Kintsugi & Justice with Haejin Shim Fujimura (Podcast)
Read more: Kintsugi & Justice with Haejin Shim Fujimura (Podcast)In this episode we’re talking about Kintsugi & Justice with Haejin Shim Fujimura, who is a lawyer who runs her own law firm in NYC, Shim & Associates, and an entrepreneur who has started four businesses, including Academy Kintsugi, which uses the Kintsugi method to teach people about the beauty of mending our brokenness to…
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How Art Shapes Empathy with Dr. Mary McCampbell (Podcast)
Read more: How Art Shapes Empathy with Dr. Mary McCampbell (Podcast)In this episode we talk about the role of art and the imagination in shaping empathy with Dr. Mary McCampbell, Associate Professor of Humanities at Lee University in Tennessee and the author of Imagining our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy (published by Fortress). As Dr. McCampbell explains, the origin for the idea of…
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Art & Cultural Engagement with Dr. Greg Thornbury (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Cultural Engagement with Dr. Greg Thornbury (Podcast)For the penultimate episode in our Art & Culture series we are joined by Dr. Greg Thornbury to discuss Art & Cultural Engagement. Dr. Thornbury is Vice President for Development at the New York Academy of Art in New York City and the author of Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music: Larry…
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Art & Biblical Literature with Dr. Matthew Mullins (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Biblical Literature with Dr. Matthew Mullins (Podcast)In the third installment of our series on Art & Culture, we are joined by Dr. Matthew Mullins for a conversation on Art & Biblical Literature. Dr. Mullins is Associate Professor of English and History of Ideas as well as Associate Dean for Academic Advising at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Wake Forest, NC), and he…
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Art & Faith with Makoto Fujimura (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Faith with Makoto Fujimura (Podcast)Continuing our series on Art and Culture, we are joined by Makoto Fujimura, who is the founder of the International Arts Movements and the Fujimura Institute and the author of Art and Faith: A Theology of Making (with Yale University Press). Over the course of our conversation we talk about the relationship of art to…
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Art & Knowing with Dr. Esther Meek (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Knowing with Dr. Esther Meek (Podcast)To kick off our series on Art & Culture we are joined by Dr. Esther Meek, who is Professor of Philosophy at Geneva College, and the author of a number of important works on epistemology, including Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (with Brazos) and Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology…
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Mill City Art Show
Read more: Mill City Art ShowI am so excited to share with you all about an art show that I am helping to organize. At Mill City Church, where I am a member, our small groups are organized around distinct missional purposes. The group that I am a part of, called Craft, is oriented towards the Arts community of Northeast Minneapolis….
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Sanctifying Art: Dante’s Pilgrim on the Terrace of Pride
Read more: Sanctifying Art: Dante’s Pilgrim on the Terrace of PrideHaving emerged from the bowels of Hell, Dante and his guide find themselves upon the shores of the fresh and uncharted territory of Purgatory, a mountain surrounded by sea and pure air free from the stench and darkness of the Inferno. From the opening lines of Purgatorio, the poet distinguishes this place as God-graced: the…
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John of Damascus on Divine Images
Read more: John of Damascus on Divine ImagesSt. John of Damascus penned the Treatises on the Divine Images in response to iconoclasm which swept across the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Leo III. Throughout his three treatise, St. John of Damascus works to distinguish veneration from worship, and he justifies icons imaging Jesus and the saints. As a modern reader the distinction between…