“Being a Christian creative in a post-Christian world is fun, but it’s also a serious business. Creatives have a high calling: out of the grace they’ve received, they are to give away parts of themselves in their art, planting “oases” in the desert that draw the alienated, hurting, resentful, and cynical in to see the world anew.

The creatives who can do this work well employ imaginations with a peculiar mixture of light and dark, subtlety and boldness. It’s a costly calling, for artists often create from a place of pain, becoming transparent to their audience. But it’s also a deeply beautiful calling as we hold out hope and light in a dark world.”