Links to art and christianity related things in some sort of an attempted order

Last updated March 29th, 2005

Articles and thoughts

• Emergingchurch.info article on Worship
  interesting article, 12 basic points. nice, concise, thoughtful.
  Check out the rest of the site (emergingchurch.info)for other interesting and thoughtful articles.

• Anti-Excellence article by Mark Pierson
  a great article... more 'pro-participation' than 'anti-excellence' - also check out the rest of the site...

• Art & Activism & Christianity (Adbusters Magazine)
  interesting contrasting of religious right vs artists - how big is the divide? is there one?

• Jonny Baker's blog
  this guy has a many great things to say, has done many great things and still is. check out the alternative worship links and art links. in fact, check out all the links you can find here. all top quality! plus he posts multiple times each day! hard to keep up with!

• Josh Lyon's Blog
  here's where I post about what I'm doing and what I've done and what I'm thinking about in relation to my 'Sacred Space' thesis.

Resources

• Proost
  Jonny Baker's record label that also carries alt.worship resources.

• One Small Barking Dog
  a christian production company that makes loops and video art for use in worship.

Interesting Places/Organisations

• Burning Brush
  an arts collective related to cornerstone festival.

• 24-7 prayer
  interesting worldwide use of prayer space as art space... plus praying 24 hours a day!

• Imago
  a christian arts organisation that runs events (often with ICS) on art and christianity, often bringing really interesting speakers and artists to Toronto. These guys also sponsor projects and support all sorts of arts. make sure to check the events page often!

• ICS - The Institute for Christian Studies
  this place is connected to the arts in all sorts of crazy ways. Adrienne Chaplin works there and teaches aesthetics - she is so excited to talk to anyone who is even vaguely interested in christianity and the arts!

• Horizon Zero
  HorizonZero is a multimedia Web magazine about digital art and culture in Canada - a bilingual virtual space devoted to creativity and critical ideas in the new media canon.

• Born Magazine
  Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists.

• Holyspace.org
  some meditations and conremplations, flash and video... an exploration/inspiration space.

• Smallfire
  an index of art+church events worldwide (alt.worship related). lots of lovely pictures of amazing worship/art spaces and plenty of links to other sites.

• Smallritual
  related to smallfire, but a more personal project by the same guy.

• Re:Jesus
  an interesting site that mixes all sorts of arts and theology and christian images and... well it's just interesting.

• Embody
  a christian design house (mostly web based) with some really amazing meditation/contemplation stuff online. go to "ember days project" to see it. make sure you take the time to check out the online labyrinth on a good connection, and turn on your sound...

• 40 - a lent art project
  an illustrator posting a picture a day for lent, of Jesus in the desert.

Some churches doing cool things

• Ecclesiax
  an interesting church in Ottawa doing some creative things - also a really fantastic website.

• NeXt Church
  my church in kingston, also doing some really cool stuff

• The Meeting House
  I really enjoy what Bruxy Cavey has to say about religion ("God Hates Religion") in his sermon's on the irreligious Christ.

• Virtual Church = Vurch.com
  yup, an online virtual church... not the only one out there!

Some Books

• "Music, Theology and Time" - Jeremy Begbie
  
• "Imagine: A Christian Vision for the Arts" - Steve Turner
  
• "Alternative Worship" - Jonny Baker and Doug Gay
  

Some artists that I like because I see bits of God in their work

• Janet Cardiff
• Bill Viola
• Doug Aitken
• Mark Wallinger
• Olafur Eliasson

The Collective

• minutes from our first meeting