Check out this very perceptive op ed piece by Bill Barnwell, a Michigan pastor. Here’s a taste:
Much of the problem is that many Christians are told that the arts are evil and need to be avoided. I know that on a mass cultural level, however, that a gifted Christian artist can reach far, far, more people than can the average pastor (and I say this as someone who is a pastor). If you go to church, when’s the last time you heard a sermon calling Christians to the “high calling” of the arts? It’s not at all that I think pastors and missionaries serve no good purpose, but in this day and age those in the media and arts are more effective in charting the course and direction for our culture than the average preacher is. But unfortunately, this is a “mission field” that many Christians have abandoned.
