Harold Best & Pastors' Q&A Panel: "Thoughts For Christian Artists And Musicians"

Sojourn Community Church of Louisville was proud to host the 2008 Cultivate Beauty Festival a few weeks ago at our home, The 930 Art Center.  One of my favorite events during this time was a Saturday morning breakfast and Q&A panel on “Thoughts for Christian Artists and Musicians,” which you can now hear by clicking the play button below, or by subscribing to our podcast, Sojournmusic.com Radio, from iTunes or the directory of your choice.

Here are just some of the topics covered:

How to tear down the wall between “sacred” and “secular” 

The Christian Subculture

What does cultivating humility as an artist look like?

Spiritualizing your art?

The lost language of lament

What is “beauty”?

Dangers of artistic autonomy

Musical artists from Radiohead to Randy Travis, movies from Once to Magnolia, the Song of Solomon, and more.

Panelists included Dr. Harold Best, author of Unceasing Worship and Music Through The Eyes Of Faith, as well as pastors from churches at the forefront of a national movement of Christians in the arts: our own worship arts pastor Mike Cosper, Christ Church (Santa Fe, New Mexico) pastor Martin Ban, and Terra Nova (Troy, New York) pastors Ed Marcelle and Scott Womer.