A catholic church in England recently unveiled this statue of Jesus showing an artists interpretation of how He might look today including a modern beard and hairstyle as well as some baggy clothes.
The parish priest said, “You are always looking for new ways to enrich people in the experience of Christianity and it is good [...]

Today we introduce a new feature to ThinkChristian: e-mail interviews with thoughtful Christians about faith and culture. There are many wise voices we need to hear from in addition to our own writers and readers here at TC, and we’re grateful for their willingness to join our conversation. (We’ll be doing the interviews by e-mail [...]

Is anyone else amazed at what U2 can get away with?
The band has a new album out and appeared on David Letterman every night last week. On Tuesday, they played a song called “Magnificent” which reads like Old Testament Psalm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvOWunC4N8
Magnificent!
Magnificent!
I was born, I was born to be with you
In this Space and Time,
after that, the [...]

Vampire-queen-turned-Christian-writer Anne Rice is answering reader questions about her faith and writing at Beliefnet this week, and many of her answers (and the questions) are quite interesting. One of the obvious questions to ask is how, from her current vantage point in the church, she looks back at the often lurid and grisly vampire novels [...]

I’m generally a stick-to-the-classic-hymns sort of guy when it comes to church music. But I’ve got a secret dream that one day I’ll show up at church on Sunday morning to be greeted by the church choir singing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lq5YOz0dLA
It’s a praise song called “Get Ready for Love,” by the usually gloomy Nick Cave. (Read the [...]

A very cool video from Glocal Christianity:

What are other innovative ways you’ve seen the story of the Bible told?

From Village of Joy comes a top twenty list of Unusual Church Buildings. Here’s my favorite:

Of course, this begs that question: what role does the building play in worship? Personally, as long as the space isn’t distractingly ugly, I couldn’t care less what the building looks like; after all, I do go to a church [...]

Ran across an interesting book review today of Sam Anderson’s Five Lives, which charts the lives of five famous cultural rebels: Arthur Rimbaud, Emily Post, Hugh Hefner, John Lennon, and Eminem. It’s a motley crew, but their life trajectories share many elements in common. All lacked attentive fathers in their youth, and all burst onto [...]

Urban Prankster, one of the non-Bible blogs I read, recently highlighted something called the Instant Grant Program. The general idea is to raise money and give it away quickly and easily to artists who just need some cash to get started on their projects.
From The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists website:
The [...]

How should sin be portrayed in Christian stories and novels?
Author L.B. Graham has posted an essay arguing that the depiction of sin in Christian fiction must be more than moralism. The full essay is worth reading, but here’s a short excerpt:
I’m constantly surprised at how often fictional stories are judged to be Christian or not, [...]