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December 2012

December 18, 2012

Re-Imagining Patronage

Gustave Courbet, The Source of the Loue, 1864. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The...

December 14, 2012

Get a Free Book! (The Holy Nomad)

Not too long ago I participated in a Patheos book club discussion of The Holy Nomad, by...

December 11, 2012

Art and Audience

A recent article in Humanities has caused me to give some thought to the audience for...

December 07, 2012

Got a Ph.D. in Theology? Go Work for a Church

What to do with all these worthless Ph.D.'s in the humanities? The Chronicle of Higher...

December 06, 2012

Odds and Ends

I've been doing some work beyond my weekly posts here at CULTIVARE and...

December 03, 2012

Damien Hirst is Free

The market for artist Damien Hirst's work seems to have bottomed out. And those who...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

The Ladder & The Bridge

There is a habit of thinking among Christian artists, philosophers, and theologians that conceives of...

November 23, 2012

Black Friday, Good Friday, and the Eucharist: Being Consumed, Part II

Black Friday is receding into Thanksgiving. A U.S. News articlereports that Wal-Mart, Sears and Toys-R-Us...

November 20, 2012

Haystacks & Shadows

One of the most enjoyable aspects of teaching art history to college students is presenting...

November 16, 2012

‘Tis the Season… To help out — some… within finite boundaries… in non-polarizing projects

Today's guest blogger is Tim Conder, the founding pastor of Emmaus Way in Durham, NC. ...

November 13, 2012

Artists Behaving Strangely

Why do so many artists behave so strangely? If their odd-looking work isn't enough to...

November 08, 2012

Holy Nomad and the “Quest” Approach to Christian Faith

This post is my contribution to Patheos' book club on Matt Litton's Holy Nomad: The Rugged Road to...

November 06, 2012

Who Are You?

Every painting is a self-portrait. Although he may nowhere be seen on the canvas, the...

November 01, 2012

Politics and the Narcissist Impulse: Just Make Me a Hero, Please

Election season is winding down. We will all breathe a sigh of relief when it's...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

The Evangelical Hamster Ball

We evangelicals who care about the arts tend to operate in a hamster ball. Protected...

October 23, 2012

Let’s Explore Modern Art

I know modern art can be strange and difficult. So, let's spend a week...

October 18, 2012

“You’d be Really Pretty if You were White”: Jesus and Race in America

Editor Note: Today's Guest Post is by Doneila McIntosh. Doneila is completing her M.Div. at...

October 16, 2012

Beyond the Image

In addition to my weekly blog posts here at Cultivare, I am also contributing...

October 15, 2012

My Kid Can Do That

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, Reina Sofia, Madrid "My kid can do that" is a common...

October 12, 2012

Us and Them

I was invited to give a chapel talk at Biola University in La Mirada, California...

October 09, 2012

A Message in a Bottle

God calls an artist to be a particular kind of artist in a particular...

October 02, 2012

Art and Faithful Presence

Mako Fujimura's new studio, Princeton, New Jersey. Photo courtesy Robert Puglisi Artists must make...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Homecoming Prank Turns Positive

Bullying is a major problem. At least we're hearing more about it--and talking more about...

September 27, 2012

Original Innocence? Children, Race, and the Kingdom of God

One of the highlights of my summer and early fall has been regular trips to...

September 25, 2012

Luther, Evangelicals, and Modern Art

Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Wittenberg Altarpiece, 1547, Wittenberg, Germany Modern and contemporary painting is...

September 21, 2012

Words

Today's guest blogger is John Cuyler, Pastor of Storrs Community Church in Coventry, Connecticut since...

September 20, 2012

Did God “Create” Death? Reflections on the Abrupt Demise of a Squirrel

The other day, Auggie, my six-year old Springer Spaniel, scored a major victory. After chasing...

September 18, 2012

Hope Amidst the Ruins in Charlottesville

At the end of the month I'll be speaking at the Mockingbird Ministries fall conference...

September 14, 2012

Melville’s Epilogue

In 1857 an exhausted and depressed Herman Melville travelled to Jerusalem in an effort...

September 13, 2012

Kierkegaard on the Bible’s “Carefully Contrived Discrepancies”

Here's a little reflection, from Kierkegaard, for those of you interested in the issue of...