The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.
A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting – in sho...
We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?