I am not aware of any church containing recent commissions that has an arrangement that has been thought through as carefully and completely as this.
Are Film Scores Contemporary High-Art Music?
There is no such thing as music for music’s sake, just as there is no such thing, despite what we are told, as art for art’s sake. The very fact that a composer or artist decides to create something means that it must have some purpose in his mind. Beautiful music and art are so because they fulfill a noble purpose.
What Christianity Reveals About the Success of Breaking Bad
The Princeton Project: Images of Icons of Mt Sinai Available Online
A Coptic Orthodox Commentator on The Way of Beauty and the 21st Century Catholic Renaissance
As a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church, he is making such observations as an outsider, and while he is critical about some aspects of traditional Catholic culture, he is refreshingly open to the first developments taking place in what he sees as a renewal of sacred arts in the Roman Catholic Church.
Harmonious and Dissonant Proportions 2: Downtown Oakland, California
The Art of the Beautiful: 7th Season of Lectures
Man is Body, Soul and Spirit! Why We Mustn't Forget the Spirit
Daoist Chinese Art as an Inspiration for Christian Sacred Art
Popular Culture Can Be Christian! Popular Culture Must Be Christian
This is the point: contemporary culture can direct people to God without arousing prejudice if it participates in the themes and the forms of the narrative of faith and of liturgical art, music and architecture. Compare The Trees, by Canadian rock band Rush with the conversation of the vine, fig tree and briars in Judges 15!
