Film leaves character unresolved Blue Like Jazz Steve Taylor, director Donald Miller’s New York Times bestselling book Blue Like Jazz has finally* come to the big screen. Veteran rocker, new…
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Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You’ve Only Heard About
by ReviewerRumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You’ve Only Heard AboutAuthors: Darren Whitehead & Jon TysonThey were exchanging stories about their night at the stripper’s, and complaining about how weak the marijuana was on a recent trip to Amsterdam. I was at the next table over, doing my best not to be distracted. I had stopped in at this Vancouver restaurant, hoping to finish the last few chapters of a book which, at that moment, felt even more pertinent: Rumors of God.
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Historical Attitudes That Have Shaped the Church’s use of the Arts
by ContributorHistorical Attitudes That Have Shaped the Church’s use of the ArtsAuthor: Matthew R.S. Todd Fifty years ago, Dorothy Sayers lamented, “The Church as a body has never made up her mind about the Arts…[and] has seldom made any consistent attempt to relate their aesthetic to the central Christian dogmas.” Strong words, and likely a fair critique. However, within the last 15 years we have witnessed a growing interest and new vitality around the relationship between Christian theology and the arts.