Visual Arts

Betsy Steele Halstead on Hospitable Projection in Worship

Maybe you are in charge of visuals at your church and you knock yourself out looking for cool images. But you would be better off thinking about how your chosen images assure worshipers that God welcomes them.

April 15, 2016 | 4 min read

Nonverbal Worship Practices that Bridge Differences

Rhythm, liturgical movement and visual art draw on gifts already present in how God made us and what the universal church has already created.

October 9, 2015 | 9 min read


Worship, Beauty, Justice, and Shalom

In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.

February 20, 2015 | 62 min listen