Arts

Articles

• Digging Beneath Six Feet Under by Nancy Scott. Explores how a modern television show raises and answers questions about the meaning of life and death.
• Is Goodness Boring? by Ron Julian. Shows how "virtue" suffers in two book-to-movie stories.
• Christians & Serious Art by R. Wesley Hurd. Discusses the nature of fine art and the challenges for the Christian artist.
• Outer Limitations by Nancy Scott. Highlights the worldview assumptions behind the classic sci-fi series, "The Outer Limits."
• A Little Light Reading by Ron Julian. Presents a personal appreciation of Christian values in the arts, as seen in the Father Brown stories.
• How the Story Ends by Ron Julian. Reviews three movies that highlight our culture's semi-biblical view of death.
• Schindler's List by R. Wesley Hurd. Reflects on the significance of Spielberg's film to the baby-boom generation.
• Artistic Calling in the Church by R. Wesley Hurd. Defends the legitimacy of art as a calling for believers.
• After Virtue by R. Wesley Hurd. Portrays the departure of the ideal of virtue from the arts and popular culture.
• Art and Modern Art by R. Wesley Hurd. Considers how modern art speaks and what it is saying about the human condition.
• The Artful in Us All by R. Wesley Hurd. Describes the inevitable place of art in human experience and the challenge of Christian artmaking.
• A Room Full of Books by Jeff Johnson. Portrays the value of books in our spiritual journey.
• Creating in Faith by Jeff Johnson. Reflections on being an artist and a Christian.
• Thoughts on Art, Popular Culture, and the Gospel by Tucker A. Teague. Explores the effect of the popular visual arts on our perception of reality and the communication of the gospel.