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Joshua Blankenship on Christian Art, Parody, and Creativity

Preach it, brother!!!!

When a church (or Christian organization, or Christian designer) takes existing art and media, makes poor parodies of it (that they probably made in a few days because refuse to plan well), and then distributes it under the guise of creativity it completely devalues the work and skills of the artists and craftsmen responsible for the inspiration. Worse, it just makes followers of Christ look BAD, which in turn makes Christ look bad, uncreative, and irrelevant. And then we wonder why there aren’t more artists in the church.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 8:27 amand is filed under Art/Film/Literature, Open Source Theology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Joshua Blankenship on Christian Art, Parody, and Creativity”

  1. Pat said on: March 28th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    Blankenship speaks specifically to parodies, and, to be sure, there are some t-shirts that I wish would just go away, but I think that the concept applies to any Christian art. In the interest of fairness, I think that the Rock MN has done some GREAT parodies (Revelation 9:11, DaVeggie Code) in their Rock TVs.

  2. erik said on: March 28th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

    please be nice, i love my Lord’s Gym shirt! :)

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