Art and faith links

Canvas (Orange County church)

We are always looking for poets, percussionists, visual artists (live and exhibit), video artists, dancers, and musicians to join our community. We are a church that is in tune with our culture? We encourage creativity and embrace the arts as a powerful expression of life and spirituality. The artistic expression of our community is not merely to demonstrate or teach, but to inspire. We seek for the arts to be more than a trend and the artist to be more than just a token in our church. Our sincere desire is to avoid making a symbolic gesture towards the arts and to immerse ourselves in all things creative.

Aaron Flores’ blog (pastor of Canvas)

O. Aaron Flores, born in 1976, is a thinker, writer, speaker, church planter, artist, and blogger.

Adam Feldman blog

I come from an evangelical background that places a high value on the authority and importance of scripture and reason. Unfortunately, the arts and creativity had been sidelined for the better part of the 19/20th centuries as a result of the pendulum swinging too far toward intellect. Without rehashing an “old” argument going on in most of Christendom today (“old” as in about 10+ years old), suffice it to say that as of late the Christian church [for the most part] has been trying to reintegrate these two forms of truth under the same umbrella: not surprisingly, art.