13 episodes
The Artist's Creed The Rabbit Room Podcast Network
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4.8 • 31 Ratings
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A Christian artist hopes that God is working in and through her. But does this mean that her own voice and identity must be silenced? In this podcast series, Steve Guthrie (Belmont University) draws on the tenets of the Nicene Creed to develop a rich vision of the relationship between the voice of God and the voice of the artist.
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The Sound Breath Makes
In Episode 1, Steve and Drew discuss sound as incarnational in an excarnational world, the dual American problems of loneliness and polarization, the vulnerability of speech, the voice as a glimpse into the soul, wind and breath as more than mere symbols of the Spirit of God, the human being as a musical instrument, and much more.
This episode is based on Steve Guthrie's blog post "Spirit & Sound, Part 1: The Sound Breath Makes," which you can read at RabbitRoom.com.
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The Breath Between Us
In Episode 2, Steve and Drew discuss the significance of breath in the murder of George Floyd, the phenomenon of Zoom fatigue and the exhaustion of words without breath, the shifting ways in which we experience music, and much more.
This episode is based on Steve Guthrie's blog post "Spirit & Sound, Part 2: The Breath Between Us," which you can read at RabbitRoom.com.
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God in Motion
In Episode 3, Steve and Drew discuss the unlikely outworkings of Tolstoy’s theory of art in consumer culture, tensions between individualism and the social dimension of art, what the word “media” really means, the Holy Spirit as both gift and Giver, and plenty more.
This episode is based on Steve Guthrie's blog post "Spirit & Sound, Part 3: God in Motion," which you can read at RabbitRoom.com.
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Sounding, Re-sounding, and the Antiphonal Shape of the World
In this fourth episode, Steve and Drew discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," examples of antiphony in music (including Andrew Peterson's "Is He Worthy?"), the collaborative-yet-fragmented nature of meme culture, the inescapable human characteristic of resonance, and much more.
This episode is based on Steve Guthrie's blog post "Spirit & Sound, Part 4: Sounding, Re-sounding, and the Antiphonal Shape of the World," which you can read at RabbitRoom.com.
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The Preposition of Love
In this fifth episode, Steve and Drew discuss what it means for God to "speak through" us, the divine dignifying of the human voice, the unique character of particular musical instruments, the multiplicity of voices in the four gospels, and much more.
This episode is based on Steve Guthrie's blog post "Spirit & Sound, Part 5: The Preposition of Love," which you can read at RabbitRoom.com.
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The Man Who Read with His Mouth Closed (And the Spirit Who Didn't)
In this final episode of Season Two, Steve and Drew discuss the relative novelty of reading silently, our text-oriented society, the inward connotations of “spirituality,” recommendations for incorporating the “out-loud-ness” of scripture into spiritual practices, and much more.
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Customer Reviews
Got a Need fo’ da Creed!
This has become of my listened to podcasts. The theological underpinnings of deep things are made of rough iron hewn out of a mountain and its fell goat. Every episode is one. And sometimes more. Whenever I need to be an artist, I will always come here to do so. Like Rocky, I jab the Creed with artistic punch and it smiles and punches back (but not Ivan Drago).
Thoughtful, Faith-filled, Scholarly
Thank you for this inspiring & instructive conversation. I will certainly return to it!
Subtle and insightful
Steve is such a good conversationalist, and I really admire the way he structured this season of interviews—each episode corresponding to an affirmation from the Nicene Creed. Every conversation ends up in surprising places and sheds new light on the intersection of art and faith. If you’re looking for some new voices to speak into your creative process, whatever your craft is, look no further! You’ll find some inspiration here.