Art
The Art of Bookmaking and the Glory of Craftsmanship
By Joseph Sunde
The American economy has undergone a range of transitions, from agrarian to industrial to information-driven. Given our new-found status, manual labor is increasingly cast down in the popular imagination, replaced by romanticized dreams about white-collar jobs, bachelor’s degrees, and ladder-climbing of a similar sort.
From Bard to Barber: Jars of Clay’s Stephen Mason on Vocation
By Joseph Sunde
For most musicians, the prospect of a long and stable career in the arts is a lifelong dream. For those who actually “make it,” however, aspirations can sometimes shift in surprising ways.
8 Lessons on Creative Service from Disney’s ‘Silly Symphonies’
By Joseph Sunde
Teaching our children about the value and virtues of hard work and sound stewardship is an important part of parenting, and in a privileged age where opportunity and prosperity sometimes come rather easily, such lessons can be hard to come by.
Rediscovering Beauty: Flannery O’Conner on the Economy of Wonder
An emphasis on the need for practical use is beneficial when applied to goods in the market, so as to meet the ever changing demands of the consumer. But the value of some goods cannot be reduced to a selling price. One such good is beauty.
The Shepherd Motif: Gregory Thornbury on Cain, Abel, and Culture-Making
By Joseph Sunde
“It needs to be our job to envision a different future for the church in which we teach our young people to compete in the arena and be so excellent that they cannot be denied — to be shepherds.” -Gregory Thornbury
Kings Without a King: Kuyper on the Illusion of Independence
By Joseph Sunde
“A human kingship imperceptibly came to power, leaving no place for the kingship of Christ.” –Abraham Kuyper