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The Place of Art in the Church

A question for the Church: What role does art serve? I’ve been thinking about the “hows” of the above question. How do we use art to glorify and worship God? Do we only use certain things for a worship service? Does it matter what styles we use in a worship service? Can art be inherently [...]

The Nature of Tools: Thoughts on Worship

I just read a blog post yesterday that inspired me to say something about tools. I stumbled across this link on twitter in a search I have up in TweetDeck. So here goes. Is a tool inherently good or evil? How about a fork? Is it good? Bad? Seems a kind of silly question. Let [...]

The Way We’ve Always Done It: Words Not to Live By

So here’s the deal. If, in order to explain why you’re doing something, you say “Because that’s the way we’ve always done it,” then you are in trouble. Case in point: the music industry. We’ve always sold physical copies and been able to control their copying to our liking. That’s how we’ll approach digital transmissions. [...]

The Church and Art

I recently watched this video a few days ago and it got me thinking. We as a church body have gotten behind when it comes to art. When was the last time you heard of an awesome piece of music that moved the genre in a brand new direction? When did you last see a [...]