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In a recent online exchange, I posted a photo of an icon that showed the Virgin Mary with a breast partially uncovered. While some of the discussion centered around the

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It is not uncommon for professors at Christian colleges and universities to begin class with prayer. I attended public schools through high school and public colleges until I transferred to

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I am a scholar of art & religion. This is one of those rare moments when my academic discipline intersects with a major media story. I am also a Christian,

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-For S. They had promised us a meteor shower, but all we saw were lightning bugs. Down the street, you could hear the lowing and occasional roars of livestock, the

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I’ve been teaching art in college for many years now. On the first day of class, I always tell students that the way they learn in an art class is

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A poem, Epiphany 2022 I have begun to wonder if we have not found God because we think we do not have time to gaze at the stars. We could

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The comment below came across my Twitter and it struck me… but, not in a good way. “The Holy Spirit does not use movies. He uses whatever Scripture is in

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The contemporary Christian rock group Petra dedicated an entire album to the theme of spiritual warfare when they released This Means War in 1987.  With a title track that channeled

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There is massive disagreement about the ontology of beauty. For many today, beauty is merely in the eye of the beholder. For others, beauty is an objective reality. I’ve thought

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A couple of years ago, a meme started to float around in what I think of as my Internet circles that wasn’t so much a joke as it was an

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So why is it so hard to make a good Jesus movie? After all, the story of Jesus is the greatest story ever told. Why is it so hard to

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Let’s face it, it is absolutely impossible for us to understand an eternal transcendent God and his domain. It is far beyond our comprehension. So, we often use metaphors to

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