This looks like an interesting event: Transforming Culture: a symposium for pastors, church leaders, and artists. It’s set for next April in Texas, and the speaker lineup includes Eugene Peterson, Andy Crouch, and Barbara Nicolosi, among others. (Spotted at Looking Closer.)
And while I’m talking about cool events, GodBlogCon is right around the corner. I’m sorry to say that I won’t be attending this year, but I look forward to reading the inevitable blog reports from it. In fact, if you’re attending GodBlogCon this year and plan to talk about it on your blog, feel free to leave your blog address in the comment section below so the rest of us can follow along from a distance!
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October 26, 2007 at 17:33
Is there any excitement like that of reading Tolstoy and discovering new intellectual vistas, or studying a Rembrandt and finding one’s soul jump-started to attempt a bold, God-honoring work? Christian artists…let our Lord express His creative riches through your gifts!
Believers left the artistic scene in droves because the secular philosophy undergirding it in Europe (the hub of artistic acceptance) has increasingly demanded that to be a “real” artist one has to live an unencumbered, even immoral, totally sensory life -not exactly conducive to talented believers interested in drawing the deep things of God forth artistically. “Typical” Christian themes have not been noticed unless soaked in urine. Flecks of splattered paint, soup cans, and Mapplethorpes are much more meaningful to modern and post modern minds adrift on a sea of mediocrity. I am glad for this artistic endeavor. It will be a bright, much needed light shined upon an intellectually dreary and bleak background.
Michael Card reminds us, our lives are true eternal masterpieces, God’s very Poems, sonnets of His glory, living epistles shining forth His Word. My hope is that artists everywhere will keep in mind that the life they lead, not the art they produce, is what truly honors God and transforms culture.