Those of Christian faith persuasion commonly express dissatisfaction with contemporary art. Why is it so difficult to understand? What is it suppose to represent? What does it mean? These and other qu...Read More
By Andy Crouch, InterVarsity Press, 2008. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and culture has occupied the faith community from its very beginning. It can be traced within the biblical nar...Read More
The Vancouver Arts Network (V.A.N.) is a community of artists (writers, musicians, actors, dancers and visual artists) and art patrons who are in creative dialogue with spiritual issues in the arts, e...Read More
Restless Slumber(left) by Gerald Folkerts Since September 2008 Winnipeg visual artist Gerald Folkerts has been living with the diagnosis of terminal cancer. Some of you may remember that Gerald was th...Read More
“I am well aware that the term mission and its practical outworking fall into the category of ‘politically incorrect’.” Mission, missional, missio dei, transformation, incarnation, reconci...Read More
George Macdonald is one of a select handful of Christian authors who chose to use their gift of story and imagination to broaden and deepen their understanding and experience of the Christian faith, a...Read More
D. S. Martin’s first full book of poetry entitled, Poiema is out. Publishers Wipf & Stock quote Luci Shaw as saying “Each of these poems makes you want to descend to its heart and discover th...Read More
“And there was one that wrestled with him until daybreak” -The Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 32:24 Introduction to Wrestling with Angels (1995). There are few Christian poets and prose writers in BC an...Read More
The three poems and two images here presented are part of a much longer sequence which has recently been exhibited in the gallery of the Ryerson Polytechnic University’s School of Image Arts under t...Read More
While searching through Winter Sun, The Dumfounding (Margaret Avison’s collected poems of 1940-1966), I discovered that someone had written a note in the margin of Margaret’s signed poem The Swimm...Read More