Art Is Essential for Life

There are people, including some Christians, who view the arts as a frivolous indulgence, especially in times of economic difficulty. If they consider that the arts have any value at all, they believe the arts to be valuable only insofar as they can be used to teach people or manipulate people or preach to people. In other words, their appreciation of the arts, if it exists at all, is strictly utilitarian.

I just came across a very good article, published in Christianity Today two days ago, which addresses the aforementioned fallacy. Incidentally, the portion of the article consisting of a quotation from Karl Paulnack is the portion from which the title of this blog post was derived.

A Brief Introduction to the Christian Arts Initiative

The specific purpose of this site (as well as a related web site known as ArtisticChristians.com) is to distribute information (including my initial proposal, progress reports and more) pertaining to the Christian Arts Initiative.

In addition to the various web pages which can currently be found at ArtisticChristians.com, I'd like to recommend that you visit one of my publicly accessible file folders in order to download several different documents which will help to more fully explain my vision for the Christian Arts Initiative. Here's a link to a folder containing PDF files pertaining to that project.