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Spirit guides, time travel, and theology: seemingly polar concepts and yet they are the pillars of Madeleine L’Engle’s most notable work, A Wrinkle in Time.The story of young Meg Murray, a social misfit who, along with her younger brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin, embarks on an adventure across time and space in search of her captured father. Though this …
Forefront Festival secretary and resident musical connoisseur Zack Osinski interviews Ryan Flanigan of Liturgical Folk about the role of music in the church.
As a lover of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, I have waited with wincing anticipation for the release of the new biopic. Honestly, I worried and fussed in all the days leading up to the screening of Tolkien.On the one hand, I really wanted to love this film. I love biopics, where in the warp and weft of great filmmaking, a director …
“Ask the questions that have no answers.Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.” —Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation FrontIt is one of the more clichéd remarks of our time to decry the distracted age in which we live. Ours is the generation of “instant gratification,” as the saying goes. And so it is. As with most other clichés, this …
Perhaps you’ve heard of the most recent installment of the Star Wars saga. I have seen The Last Jedi three times now, and it gets better each time. I was speechless after the first viewing, overwhelmed by a flurry of excitement, joy, and disappointment. After two more viewings, I collected my thoughts and–aside from a few minor qualms–I have grown …
What does a Christian do when an artist calls Jesus a “boogey man”? How about the unbeliever when a musician sings “Jesus’ll kill you if you don’t get along”? Or simply his name: Jesus. Does the Christian swoon, the unbeliever grimace? For years, a favorite musician of mine has been Joni Mitchell. As the preeminent singer-songwriter of the twentieth century, …
“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” Psalm 8:1, 9“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” -Psalm 8:1, 9 The familiar passage from Psalms always brings to mind the worship chorus. I remember hearing it over and over as a child. I can hear the arrangement in my …
There is a gulf in the Christian community between sacred and secular art and culture. Sacred music and art is safe to interact with — no chance of upsetting God or becoming too immersed in the world there. What the Christian community fails to realize, however, is that secular art and culture and God are not mutually exclusive…
As a Christian and a creative — someone who must be producing something original (often multiple things at once) in order to feel purposed — I often take time to consider my place, both in Christianity and in the arts community. Even though I surely consider myself first a follower of Christ and second a creator, I find myself often …
