Safety has become a very important concept in Christian entertainment. Pick up any Christian parenting magazine that talks about healthy entertainment for your kids, any online guide to what entertainment Christians should or shouldn't indulge in, and you'll find it can almost all be summed up as, "anything outside this very specific zone is unhealthy …
Several months ago, I was in a conversation with some book lovers and Inklings fans. We had wrapped up a discussion about Dorothy Sayers, when someone in the raised an interesting question: "You know, we talk a lot about Anglicans like Sayers and C.S. Lewis who wrote great books, and about liberal Christians like Frederic …
Continue reading Why Do High Churches Get All the Good Artists? (Pt 1)
In addition to seeking novels that explore spiritual ideas in interesting ways, I'm always on the lookout for a good film that explores religious ideas. While my previous post focused on novels written by people who considered themselves orthodox Christians, this one includes a variety of people. Some of these filmmakers were Christians, some were …
Back in December 2020, I announced that I was taking a three-month hiatus from blogging to consider new direction with my blog. Since the blog hasn't had much focus and I've gotten more involved in freelancing the last year or so which hasn't left as much time to write, I had to consider where I …
Some of you may remember I did a web comic series for a while in 2018, partly as a practice attempt to try out a website I was going to use to release a graphic novel. I learned a lot, and realized that while I don't consistently draw every week, I quite enjoy doing it. …
Some time ago I started a list of (mostly) nonfiction books that described the evangelical struggle with the arts or how to do art well from a Christian perspective. Since I recently did a series on problems with Christian Fiction novels, it seemed like a good idea to look at relatively modern novels by Christians …
I review Christian books, mostly nonfiction ones but I do get a Christian Fiction novel or two each month. Occasionally I’ll get one that I enjoy, and frequently I’ll give 3 or 4 stars just because I know the author means well and it’s not too terrible. However, most of the time I’m just not …
Continue reading What Makes a Story? (Building a Better Christian Novel Pt 10)
This last year when I was working on a new short film and planning a short story series for Halloween, I got to thinking about my earlier creative projects with amateur film group Robotic Flyers Productions. Since the short story series was built around the idea that I was supposedly editing stories written by someone …
Continue reading Me Interviewing Me: A (Hopefully) Early Career Retrospective
The word evangelicalism has become a bit of a buzzword in the last few years. It comes up a great deal in conversations about where the church today. It comes up in political discussions. As Gerald McDermott noted in his book Can Evangelicals Learn From World Religions? it comes up a lot in the question …
Starting this week, I will be taking a sabbatical from my usual weekly/biweekly blog to consider new directions. I have have been writing this blog more or less continuously since 2015, and that's given me a chance to cover a lot of ground and consider the ways that art and faith connect on various levels. …
