Art, Faith, and the Stewardship of Culture

I know most of you have probably read this before, but it may be worth a second look. This is Greg Wolfe's classic manifesto on cultural stewardship.

When Dave Sims introduced me to Greg Wolfe's vision (was it this very essay?), his vision articulated what we'd been struggling to articulate for a very long time. We had been planning a Christian art & culture reading group to work through some of these ideas, which Jim Parker suggested we turn into an arts conference. The Trinity Arts Conference took on a life of its own long ago (and without me) and several O'Conner, Buechner, and Maritain books later I still find myself driven largely by the vision outlined here. If you've never read it before do so immediately. You'll thank me for it.

Religious Humanism: A Manifesto

Here's Wolfe's follow-up several years later:
Art, Faith, and the Stewardship of Culture.

And please, please don't miss this essential chapter from Maritain's Art and Scholasticism:
Christian Art.