This month, The Francis Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis will present “Heaven in a Nightclub,” an exploration of the Gospel that traces the spiritual roots of jazz music.

Like faith, art often passes from one generation to the next. For Jennifer Coffin, it began when she first laid eyes on her mother’s potter’s wheel.

April 22-24—Bifrost Arts presents “The Cry of the Poor,” a conference about “worship, community, and mercy.” Hosted at various churches and cathedrals in downtown Philadelphia, the conference will explore the relationship between worship and obedience. “Bifrost” is a word taken from Norse mythology that refers to a bridge between the gods and the earth. In…

Many academics and literary critics in Tolkien’s day—and many still today—dismissed Tolkien’s tales as “mere” children’s literature not worthy of serious academic consideration . . . One year after publishing The Hobbit, Tolkien presented a lecture (on March 8, 1939) at the University of St. Andrews on the subject of fairy tales.

A hardened ex-convict has just robbed a bishop — the only person who had been kind to him. He’s promptly caught and dragged back to the scene of the crime to face his punishment. Instead, he receives undreamed-of mercy.

If you’ve read The Chronicles of Narnia, you know they are loaded with Christian themes and symbols. That’s why many assume that C. S. Lewis wrote them in order to send some kind of Christian message. But Lewis himself insisted otherwise. The tales, he said, started as a series of pictures that came into his…

James and Dana Dirksen’s Songs for Saplings ministry delivers deep biblical truths through lively, engaging songs for children. The couple, members at Intown Presbyterian Church in Portland, Ore., recently returned from Malawi, where they recorded the second local-language volume of their six-part “Questions with Answers” series, based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism. They hope that…

How do you find satisfaction? With the help of Bertrand Russell and St. Augustine, Iron Works Church is looking for the answer.

Buried in most stories, if mentioned at all, was Brubeck’s late-in-life conversion to Christianity and his robust body of sacred music.

The Protestant Church has often struggled with the notion of art, and in just about every medium. Fear of spectacle, of the fantastic, the ornamental, the iconic and symbolic, and the apparent falsehood of fiction has roiled deep in the Reformed Christian consciousness.