“Art imitates nature,” Aristotle once claimed. Yet, more often than not, art touches a space beyond our physical world—from the ecstasy of love to the twilight of grief, and indeed, to the very contours of the divine. There is something undeniably spiritual about the whole business. As the philosopher Michel Read more…
By Alejandro Morles One of my friends at the University once told me that he is majoring in Religious Studies and Economics because he “wasn’t sure if wanted to worship God or Mammon yet.” While I laughed at the moment, it was a quote that has become fixed in my Read more…
By Madeleine Roberts Out of the void where nothing grips to nothing in the bottomless cold you shaped words, like pearls, in the warm shadow of your mouth that bore upward reflecting the light of future heaven and the color of future earth, the poetry of all beauty which Read more…
By Louis DiModica When thinking about the Ten Commandments, most people focus on the “easy” ones—do not steal, do not murder, do not commit adultery (Exod. 20:13-15). But what about the first one? “You shall have no other gods before me,” commanded God, first and foremost (Exod. 20:3). In stating Read more…
By Nikko Wheeler Genesis 1:26-27 says, “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness’… So God created mankind in his own image.” The first question one might ask after reading this verse is… Why did God create us in his image? God did not need to create Read more…
By Madden High Prodigal (adj): spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant having or giving something on a lavish scale Since Christianity’s earliest days, one parable has dominated the collective imagination of believers through its exquisite imagery and beautiful simplicity: The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Read more…
By Walker Haynes There are many passages about creation in the Bible, but I would like to focus on perhaps an unexpected one: John 9. I encourage the reader to review the passage himself, but in summary, Jesus heals a man blind from birth by spitting in the dirt and Read more…
By Francesco Rahe “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said ‘Let there be light’; and there was Read more…
By Sophie Rydzewski All acts of creation are rooted in labor. As humans, our very lives are constellations of creation, from the creation and maintenance of family, to the pursuit of wealth, to the process of art making in exploration of the world surrounding us. Across the landscape of human Read more…
By Daniel Adrian Leonard Christian art possesses a certain intangible quality that sets it apart from other works, an additional touch that can only be attributed to the deep relationship of the artist with God. When the relationship is genuine, artists have the potential to create something that mirrors the Read more…