‘The Pastor: How Artists Shape Pastoral Identity’ by Eugene Peterson
In chapter 4 of For the Beauty of the Church, Eugene Peterson introduces us to three artists who shaped his pastoral integrity. The first…
A New Series: For the Beauty of the Church
Over the next week we are going to work our way slowly through the recent collection of essays edited by W. David O. Taylor…
Tidbits
Christ and Pop Culture have two posts about Inception, one on imagination and the other on reality. Diary of an Arts Pastor is a…
Food for Thought in Inception
Inception is one of those films worth your money to see on the big screen. The filming and special effects were exhilarating, together with…
Praising the Unpopular: Some Reflections on Taste
In the beginning pages of his latest book Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek argues for the different between good taste and true…
All that Jazz
“I never like jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw…
Illuminating the Bible
When I was young, one of my parents would end our meal together by pulling me up on their lap and reading a story…