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Review: Blue Like Jazz

Review: Blue Like Jazz

Despite a few not-so-glaring flaws, the 2012 film Blue Like Jazz rings true, is superbly engaging, and has opened several doors for future filmmakers in the process.

Holy Monday

Holy Monday

On Monday, Jesus, after cursing a fig tree for not producing fruit, re-enters Jerusalem and raises quite the ruckus in the temple.

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday beings Passion Week (or Holy Week). The primary event the day commemorates is Jesus' ride into Jerusalem on the Sunday before he was crucified.

Passion Week

Passion Week

Tomorrow, Palm Sunday, beings Passion Week (or Holy Week) in the Western Christian calendar. I will be blogging through the week, reflecting on the significance of the days, the ways broader Christianity commemorates this week, and particularly how it has been expressed in artwork.

After the Hiatus

After the Hiatus

Posted on 11 March 2012.

For those of you wondering why Image of Truth has been relatively silent for the first quarter of 2012, the answer is quite simple…

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Veiled in Darkness: The Shadows of Advent

Veiled in Darkness: The Shadows of Advent

Posted on 27 November 2011. Tags: , , , , , , ,

I have never been entirely comfortable with the bright colors and bouncy music that pervades the stores, radio stations, and even churches this time of year. Maybe it’s my own somewhat darker disposition, or maybe there is something about this season that is supposed to have a hint of darkness.

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Sojourn, the Pope, and Artistic Excellence

Sojourn, the Pope, and Artistic Excellence

Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: , , , , ,

It seems fitting on the same day that Sojourn Music releases it’s latest album, a Christmas project called A Child is Born, that Peter Leithart shares this word from the late Pope John Paul II…

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My Halloween Favorites

My Halloween Favorites

Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: , , ,

Here are a few films that I never seem to shake when October hits.

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On Halloween

On Halloween

Posted on 20 October 2011. Tags: , , , , , ,

In light of our victory over Satan, sin, and death, we should consider, ponder through, and pray over how we can learn from and celebrate Halloween as the Christian holiday it is and can be, proclaiming the gospel through pumpkins and plastic masks.

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Posted in Church Traditions, Evil and Ugliness, Halloween, Holidays, Horror, Latest News, Theology10 Comments

Your Halloween Favorites

Your Halloween Favorites

Posted on 15 October 2011. Tags: , ,

Everyone has favorite traditions for each holiday… What are your favorite movies, TV specials, music, and literature to enjoy in the days and weeks before Halloween and why?

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Posted in Arts, Church Traditions, Creative Concepts, Film, Halloween, Holidays, Horror, Latest News, Literature, Music, Question of the Week2 Comments

Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Posted on 11 October 2011.

The vampire only truly makes sense when it feeds on the tradition of Judeo-Christian theology… The crisis happens when we divorce the vampire from its most bare-bones concepts and reinvent it outside the concept of blood sacrifice and the struggle to accomplish eternal life aside from the work of Christ.

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Posted in Arts, Christianity, Creative Concepts, Evil and Ugliness, Film, Horror, Latest News, Literature, Theology2 Comments

The King James Bible as Literary Milestone

The King James Bible as Literary Milestone

Posted on 19 May 2011. Tags: , , , , , ,

It is easy to forget what an enormous impact the King James Bible and the tradition of translations in the century before, all based on the original translation work of William Tyndale, had on the English language that we speak to this very day.

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Glorious Gothic: Architecture, Theology, and Worship

Glorious Gothic: Architecture, Theology, and Worship

Posted on 14 May 2011.

Even though the paint is peeling and lacks it’s old leaden luster… one cannot help but feel like one is in the presence of something transcending our current world. And this was fully intentional.

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Pascha

Pascha

Posted on 24 April 2011. Tags: , , , , , , ,

The resurrection of Christ, which we celebrate today, is the integral focal point of all redemption history. Christ, who had died for the sins of the world on Friday, is on Sunday brought back to life in his glorified body…

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This site is dedicated to engaging aesthetics, creativity, church tradition, and the arts from a Biblical Christian perspective. As a brief introduction, there will be one primary contributor and editor, Jacob Davis, and numerous guest contributors here, each from a somewhat unique perspective when it comes to their involvement in art, church tradition, and background, though we could all be considered Protestant and broadly evangelical, thus coming at this from certain set presuppositions that will hopefully unify our conversation.

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