Liturgical Leanings
Occasionally, seeing how other brothers and sisters in Christ have celebrated and pointed themselves to the gospel over the centuries can enrich our experience of that same gospel all the more
Category: Aesthetics
Changing the World
I have developed a certain tendency to use the phrases “changing the world” or “taking over the world” when speaking with creative friends. I usually leave this without any particular … Continue reading Changing the World
Seeing The Gospel in Gothic Architecture
Here are a few key highlights of the Gothic-style church building that we can see in Sojourn Midtown’s new worship space, the former St. Vincent de Paul Church.
What I Miss About School
I realized earlier today one basic source of my current writer’s block… I miss the sometimes exciting structure and environment of being in school.
Sojourn, the Pope, and Artistic Excellence
It seems fitting on the same day that Sojourn Music releases it’s latest album, a Christmas project called A Child is Born, that Peter Leithart shares this word from the late Pope John Paul II…
Glorious Gothic: Architecture, Theology, and Worship
Even though the paint is peeling and lacks it’s old leaden luster… one cannot help but feel like one is in the presence of something transcending our current world. And this was fully intentional.
Beauty in the Bible
It is a fair inference that experiences of earthly beauty awaken a longing for a beauty that is more permanent and transcendent than anything this life can give – a longing for the beauty of God.
A Devotion to Beauty
We thin-souled moderns are so proud of our rejection of poems and stories and paintings. We lead half-lives and die with less.
Beautiful Clarity
“For a Christian rhetoric, perspicuity is the foundation of all the canons of style. Clarity of thought must always be the preacher’s aim. Clarity is the basic beauty of eloquent … Continue reading Beautiful Clarity
The Echo of a Voice
“The world is full of beauty, but the beauty is incomplete…”
The Catalyst: An Artistic Challenge to the Church
(This posts was originally written for my personal blog, The Sojourner’s Journal, in November, 2008. It served as one of my first expressions of my discontent with the church’s modern … Continue reading The Catalyst: An Artistic Challenge to the Church
Contributing “Art”
“This word–this idea of Art as creation is, I believe, the one important contribution that Christianity has made to aesthetics. Unfortunately, we are apt to use the words “creation” and … Continue reading Contributing “Art”
