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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ – a review for pastors and preachers. It’s way more than a reprise.

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I review The Devil Wears Prada 2, exploring the film’s deeper themes beneath the glamour of Milan fashion week. There’s a pivotal scene with five competing worldviews set before Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper: Silicon Valley transhumanism, the defence of human craft and beauty, the preservation of great art, competing interpretations of Jesus, and the enduring claims of the Gospel. That means we’re reflecting on fashion, AI, beauty, stewardship, and the dignity of artistic creation. This sequel is far more intellectually ambitious than expected — and offers rich material for preachers, church leaders, and anyone interested in culture, theology, and the arts.

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Turner, Constable – the gospel, nostalgia, place, and beauty. Another blockbuster exhibition!

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The Tate has a gorgeous exhibition at the moment, peacocking two of the greats, Turner and Constable.  They were contemporaries, rivals, and compared, even in their lifetimes. But was John Constable a Christian?

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Dear Pastor – your creatives aren’t having fun with AI

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Ask any artist if they have seen computer generated art which is designed to sell – to outsell the human.  The question they’re wrestling with, is this:  What is the point of being a human artist?  Christians and their non-Christian colleagues are asking exactly the same question.

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Journalling – why has it become so popular? The Artist’s Way from a Christian perspective

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A book that has sold in the millions only repays the price of buying it if you start to journal. But is it a Spiritual pathway?

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The Audioguide is Doing our Preaching for Us

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‘Do you understand what you’re reading?’, asked Philip of the Ethiopian.  We can ask that, and other similar questions. Do you understand what you’re listening to? Do you understand what you’re looking at?

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Hutchmoot met

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Hutchmoot has just happened, in the UK for the first time. What, you ask, is a Hutchmoot? Well, let me tell you a story. In Nashville, Tennessee, lives the wonderfully talented Andrew Peterson.  He’s a novelist, and a publisher, and a family man, and he keeps bees, but he is also, and above all,  a

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‘Philistine!’ Why I’m with Kevin de Young, and don’t watch Game of Thrones.

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It is becoming harder for TV programmes to shock enough to get ratings, and that’s only partly because they up against an unrated internet.  It’s also because as a culture (and Evangelical sub-culture) we have become much, much harder to shock.  

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Not just for arty types – a brilliant exhibition in London builds massive gospel bridges. If we can cross them…

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These painters are explicitly aiming to paint an eternal tragedy. They are painting what we would call the Fallen Condition. They are expressing what it means to be a ruined Image Bearer.

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