INFUSE Conference, July 30-31st

Here is info on the INFUSE conference in the Denver area later this month. I’ll be giving the keynote. Hope to see you there! Holy Spirit-Led Worship, Instruction and Community. Workshops include: -Journaling and Psalms -Spirit-Led Collaborative Painting -Redeeming Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror –Writing a Personal Bible Commentary –Character Matters: When Your Creative Side Gets You in Trouble –Introduction … Read More

The Bethel School of Kingdom Creativity, 2010

If you follow this blog, you know that recent exciting signs of a New Spiritual Renaissance in the arts have shown up in the Church and the culture.  The Pope invited artists to the Sistine Chapel last November to reconnect the Catholic Church with the arts, Evangelicals have become adept at electronic media arts, film and drama, Charismatics have been … Read More

How the Church can embrace artists and the arts, Part II : Ideas

(Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation was release after this article was written, an contains a treasury of arts ideas for churches. See also CreativeChurchArtsIdeas.org.) In the last post, I asked, “How can we open up our churches and our minds so that more people can get involved in the creative process, yet continue … Read More

How the Church can embrace artists and the arts, Pt 1

While we were in Canada I spoke at a Toronto area Vineyard church that was interested in the Finding Divine Inspiration message. Scott Roe, Pastor at the Cambridge Vineyard– which is on the grounds of a lovely old monastery –opened his church up to us not knowing if anyone would show up.  We were both surprised when people just kept … Read More

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