Nate, Rich and Dan discuss the art they’ve been experiencing recently: Anastasia Trusova’s paintings The Hallow app Brother to Brother by Michael Card & John Michael Talbot Ordinary Ways by Jon Guerra Stream this episode and subscribe to Forefront 360 on your favorite podcast app:AppleGoogleSpotifyShare this Episode Receive updates about future episodes: * indicates required Email Address *
Discussion: Summer Movie Review 2023
Nate, Rich and Dan give their takes on the summer blockbusters of 2023. We keep it free of major spoilers. 00:04:23 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 00:12:46 – Across the Spider-Verse 00:20:25 – John Wick 4 00:26:28 – The Flash 00:31:44 – Asteroid City 00:34:06 – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 00:45:11 – Mission: Impossible – Dead …
Discussion: AI Art (Part 2)
The Forefront crew continues and broadens their discussion about AI’s impact on the arts: How will widely accessible AI tools affect education? To what extent will AI displace jobs, and should we be concerned? Will using AI negatively affect our spiritual formation? Stream this episode and subscribe to Forefront 360 on your favorite podcast app:AppleGoogleSpotifyShare this Episode Receive updates about …
Discussion: AI Art (Part 1)
The Forefront crew discusses AI’s impact on the arts: Why has AI become so important recently? What are some positive use cases of new AI tools? What are our biggest concerns about the use of AI in the arts? Stream this episode and subscribe to Forefront 360 on your favorite podcast app:AppleGoogleSpotifyShare this Episode Receive updates about future episodes: * …
Interview: Dr. Karen Swallow Prior
Rich Christman and guest host Houston Arledge interview Dr. Karen Swallow Prior about the ideas in her all-new book, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Brazos, 2023). Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is a reader, writer, and professor. In addition to The Evangelical Imagination, she is the author of On Reading Well: Finding …
Interview: Chris Wheeler
Heather and Cody interview Chris Wheeler, a writer and poet rooted in Middlebury, IN. His nonfiction, liturgies, and poetry have been published in Barren, Fathom, Story Warren, Reformed Worship, Think Christian, Banner, and The Rabbit Room, among others. He published his first collection of poetry, Solace, in 2020. His second collection, Masks & Mirrors, came out in spring 2023.Stream this …
Discussion: The Chosen
Cody and Nate discuss The Chosen, the hit multi-season series about the life of Jesus, told from the perspective of His followers. Topics include: How The Chosen came to be Does it improve upon other recent Scripture-to-screen adaptations? Favorite scenes Is the show ever sacrilegious? Does The Chosen “bring Scripture to life”? Bonus nitpicks Stream this episode and subscribe to …
Interview: Laura Reece Hogan
Cody and Rich talk to Laura Reece Hogan. She is the author of Butterfly Nebula (Backwaters, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming October 2023), winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Litany of Flights (Paraclete Press, 2020), winner of the Paraclete Poetry Prize, the chapbook O Garden-Dweller (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and the award-winning nonfiction spiritual theology book I Live, No …
Interview: Live at A Night of Art with Josh & Zac Tiessen
Jennifer Greenman interviews Josh & Zac Tiessen, live at Forefront Festival’s A Night of Art. They discuss questions of faith, conservation, artistic process, elitism, and dealing with success and failure. A video version is also available below.Stream this episode and subscribe to Forefront 360 on your favorite podcast app:AppleGoogleSpotifyShare this Episode Receive updates about future episodes: * indicates required Email …
Special: Event Preview with Josh & Zac Tiessen
In this special episode, Nate talks to artists Josh & Zac Tiessen about two upcoming events based on Josh’s new painting series, Vanitas and Viriditas. Click below to learn more or get tickets. Grand Opening Exhibition at Rehs Contemporary in NYC, April 28 Forefront Festival: A Night of Art with Josh & Zac Tiessen in Rochester NY, May 4 Get …