For me each semester starts by picking up a tremendous burden;
the truth that art making is one of the most sincere ways by which God brings
Himself into personal relationship with man.
I know the truth of this as surely as I know that rain is now falling on
the roof of my porch. What makes the
burden more difficult is the extent by which the Christian community has
relegated the arts to little more than excess frivolity. Over time this has created an ethos in the
young Christian art student that art is a hobby, not a means by which God makes
Himself known. The burden lies in the
task of disposing of this accepted heresy while also trying to encourage the
depth of meaning in art making that true faith not only allows but also
demands. Art is capable of carrying the
ideas of God however most humans are unable to bear up under the burden of
commitment that truth requires. This is
the burden of each semester.
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| Betty took this picture of an example of the truth of this blog. |
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