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I’ve been working on assembling a “definitive” biography of Franciscus Junius in order to aid my Phd work. This is a small example of what I’m hoping to accomplish! All this chart shows you is the frequency of Junius’ departures from and entries into various cities. Obviously, he probably left and entered more cities, but…
I know, I know, it’s weird to salivate over books, but I can’t help it. Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics is finally published in English, and one day I’ll read it! I’m excited to trace the development of Reformed Dogmatics from early orthodoxy to the beginning of “modern” orthodoxy.
I asked myself this question perpetually throughout College (and Seminary): why would an artist become a pastor? My answer, in short, is because of Jesus. My father is a pastor in the PCA (a conservative Presbyterian denomination), but as a child I never envisioned myself as a pastor. In fact, I wouldn’t have considered myself…
In my first series of interviews, I’m discussing the work and history of some of my good friends and fellow artists. My hope is that this will be informative for many, and also show that Christians have a variety of ways of making/thinking about engaging in fine art. The first interviewee is Jacob Rowan, an…
The last article that I wrote covered the artists and movements that have influenced my thought as an artist. Now, I’m going to attempt to explain why I think my chosen medium/style is acceptable for a Christian and a pastor. In short, my artwork is non-representational. Its meaning is complicated or ambiguous. This post then…
As a Christian, and a pastor, I’ve received many looks of concern when I explain that my artwork is “non-representational”, or to put it incorrectly but more recognizably, “abstract”. One seminary student laughed, and flippantly disregarded me, when I mentioned the work of an abstract expressionist. One pastor has said that a Christian artist cannot…
Things have been a blur for me recently. In December I completed a three-and-half year Seminary program and received a Masters of Divinity degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. To add to it, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl about a week before final exams! We proceeded to move out…
The Bible: Beeswax:
Christians have looked warily at postmodernism for some time now. Its amorphous nature has never been appealing, and its candy-shop variety of metaphysical conclusions has been hard to accept. Sure, one can enjoy certain aspects of so-and-so’s post-structuralism, or rejoice in what’s-his-face’s view of textual analysis, or delight in another fellow’s critique of modernism’s epistemological…
So, contemporary art might be meaningful, and it might last, but is it worth the price tag? Of course, this isn’t an easy answer. A great deal of contemporary artwork is just plain awful, and so I’d say, “No, don’t spend any amount of money on this, especially not what they are asking.” Basically, a…