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No Time To Sleep
Gerald Folkerts

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Eirenepoios (Precious Nard)
Makoto Fujimura

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When did art stop being important to evangelical Christians?

How did we go from Rembrandt to Kinkade?

When did our appreciation of a work of art become based on how it matched the colors in our living room carpet?

I don’t know when or how evangelicalism began to dismiss the importance of aesthetics. But I want to start finding my way back out of this forest of apathy. Every weekend I’ll post a different work by a Christian artist. The work will "hang" on my blog so that viewers may have an opportunity to reflect, comment, and discuss the work.

Does a work move you? Disgust you? Cause you to shrug and move on? Whether it leaves you cold or filled with passion, I hope this small effort helps us to learn to see that important art is still being produced by Christians. In fact, it's been there all along. We’ve just been passing it by.

(Thanks to Discoshaman for his suggestions on bringing Christian art out of our cultural ghetto.)

• Frederick Hart, Ex Nihilo
• Roger Varland, Who Do You Say I Am?
• Edward Knippers, Jesus Whipped
• Roger Varland, Sustenance
• Frederick Hart, The Cross of the Millennium
• William Bouguereau, Les saintes femmes au tombeau
• Thomas Kinkade, San Francisco, 1909
• James B. Janknegt, St. John Reconsiders Modern Epistemology
• Erica Grimm-Vance, Figure Study II
• Don Doll, James Holy Eagle
• Melissa Weinman, Prayer
• Dan Steeves, A note of promise hangs over it all
• Thomas Kinkade, San Francisco, Late Afternoon at Union Square
• Ryan Spencer Reed, head
• Jean McComas, Veiled
• Edward Knippers, Elijah and the Fiery Chariot