Faith and Work Basics for Artists Great opportunities and great challenges: That is what creative people who work in the mainstream art world, media, or the entertainment industry will always encounter. If you want to be salt and light you need to think through how your faith intersects, informs, and fuels your creative endeavors. The […]
Hollywood is Broken Hollywood is broken and it will never return to what it once was. Jerry Seinfeld just said in his interview with GQ, “The movie business is over.” The stand-up comic, writer, and producer who loves cars, comedians, and coffee was commenting on the decline of movies, saying, “…film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle […]
How to Maintain Your Faith While Working in Mainstream Media, Entertainment or the Art World If God can use Daniel in Babylon, and Joseph in Egypt, and Esther in Babylon, God can use you to be salt and light in any industry. Unfortunately, There are too many men and women who have lost their faith […]
Why You Should Poison Your Art to Fight A.I. Have you asked yourself lately if you should poison your art to fight A.I.? You’ve heard the stories of bots scraping websites of artists, and then using that artwork to create images for other people using DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. Nobody asked you, nobody paid […]
Inspiration Beyond the Grave for Artists Is your creativity anchored in the Resurrection? What could be more inspiring or life-transforming. Join us as we examine the connection between Christ’s Resurrection and your creativity. Let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comments below! To get our FREE weekly devotion for artists and […]
Christ and Culture Book Review How does your faith interact with the world around you? Is your faith personal and private, or does your faith in Christ compel you to care about what is happening in the culture at large? Some Christians ignore the cultural trends, but at what cost? H. Richard Niebuhr’s book Christ […]
Does God Hate Hollywood? Does Hollywood promote so much anti-God content, that it is reasonable to presume that God hates Hollywood, or is there are lot more to this question? Are there people here in L.A. with dark desires and evil intentions? Of course. So how do we think about the entertainment industry? What is […]
Stop Freaking Out Start Creating Fear is the enemy of creativity. Which means if you’re freaking out about the state of the world, or something in your life, your creativity will suffer. God wants so much more for you. But God doesn’t fix all our problems right away. He wants us to learn something in […]
Is My Faith Strangling My Creativity? Whenever we think the question: Is my faith strangling my creativity? We need to realize that sometimes we get ideas about art or about our faith, that are probably not even biblical. Join us as we look at 3 assumptions Christians can make about art, and how those assumptions […]
Why Churches Lose Artists What are churches missing when artists don’t feel at home? What should we teach and preach in order to inspire artists, and help creative people to see how the gospel and the entire narrative of Scripture speaks to their talents and their creativity? Here, I’m giving you 2 New Testament verses, […]