Category Archives: Art

Empty Words

As I read through the book of Job I consistently see references to empty words, words without wisdom, words that don’t measure up. As Job’s friends confront the suffering of the faithful servant, they wonder how he can speak empty words. As Job listens to his friends, he wonders how they can answer. Finally, God

How?

Skewed and scoured along a scree unsketched circling rills run dry, ruined in rough heat, the warrior climbs, clenching the cleft, blind to the bastion, burnt to the core. Risking his soul in sudden repose, on a bed of rock, built by the boughs of time, his mind slowly mingles, mixes with his path, he

Intellectualizing and Aestheticizing.

Today our churches are just now waking up to the fact that two groups of people have been missing from them. The first is Artists, the second, Academics. Perhaps, I haven’t stated that quite right. They are there, but we seldom hear from them in church. But why is this? Why do I have friends

Toward Christian Art

What is a Christian artist? Or to put the question another way, what does a Christian artist do? I want to give a couple of meditative sketches that might help us answer that. These answers are only provisional, though, and want a great deal of revision. But I hope God will use these attempts to