Steve Bell: Music is a tilling of soil
Music breaks open hard ground, preparing it for a seed to be planted, says the Canadian singer-songwriter and Christian musician.
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Jonathan Scott Holloway: Telling the stories of African-American lives
In his book “Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940,” a historian examines the stories that black people have told about themselves, and how memory and history are related.
David Dodson: The plumb line and the right path
The theologically trained president of MDC, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to opportunity, describes his work as a “secular expression of faith.”
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar: Coming together to create
The founder of Urban Bush Women talks about the values that underlie the dance company: community, collaboration and multi-disciplinarity.
Leadership in the face of adversity
Sue Monk Kidd’s new book tells the story of the Grimké sisters and their family’s slaves. These women give us examples of leadership that grows out of faith and is deeply rooted in community.
Anna Marazuela Kim answers: Why does iconoclasm continue to matter?
The history of iconoclasm, or image breaking, reveals much about our continuing and complex relationship to images, giving insight into larger questions concerning the sacred and the profane, materiality and spirituality, religion and modernity, says an art historian.
The Manchester United approach to leadership
Eight principles of leadership distilled from the career of Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired recently after 26 years with the English soccer team.
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Heidi Campbell: The Internet challenges and empowers religious institutions
The digital culture isn’t changing religion as much as it is reflecting offline shifts in Christian life, says a scholar of religion and media at Texas A&M University.
“Charis-Kairos (The Tears of Christ).” Taken from “The Four Holy Gospels,” illuminated by Makoto Fujimura, © 2011. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Ill.
Theology and the arts
Christians are made in the image of God the creator, destined to create music, poetry, fiction, dance and other works of art. This resource page gathers Faith & Leadership interviews, essays, videos and sermons by artists, writers, theologians and scholars on the subject of Christianity and the arts.
Scott Cairns: Words lead you to ideas
Baptist-born poet Scott Cairns says that Orthodox Christianity provides a meeting place for his two loves -- language and Christ. The practice of poetry prepared him for the practice of worship, in a blending of theology and art.