We talk, create, write, work and play in a culture filled with assumptions of what is good and true. But these cultural assumptions are often wrong.

Beautiful art is complicated and not always liberating. Lovely images or provocative art stunts often just reinforce our current sense of reality.

• Art
• condescension of the lord god by
  Patrick Neufeld
• Welcome to the gallery of art in an age of brutality
• The Seventy-Two Names of God
  Simon Glass
• The Man in Question
  Tom Lovatt
• Because his wife was given to his friend
  Seth Woodyard 51
• The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
  Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 53
• Proverbs of Hell
  Catherine Heard
• Jesus Crutch
  Michael Boss
• Circumcise Your Heart
  Travis Lycar
• Writing
• Artist-pastor, a vision
  Jesse Wood 10
• The art of compassion
  Aiden Enns 6
• Art is blank
  Emily Wierenga 11
• Maybe art
  Nicholas Klassen 16
• Artists point to evil, revitalize hope
  Diana Thorneycroft and Michael Boss, Guest Art Directors 22
• Activist artist, minus the rant
  Kurt Armstrong 56
• Arty schmarty
  Spoke
• Art digest
  Aaron Epp, with assistance from Bucky Driedger, Jenni Berkel and Aiden Enns
• Pop (up) art
  Carrie S. Martin 25
• Whew!, the Lesbian Rangers are here
  Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan
• How one justice-seeker was redeemed by beauty
  Dee Dee Risher
• Notes toward a moral beauty
  Miriam Meinders 18
• Precious
  David McGimpsey 24
• Fine art and pooh-poohing designer capitalism
  Anna Bowen 32
• Perspective on art appreciation
  Robert L. Peters 34
• Actions speak louder than art
  Alison Kooistra 35
• Art is a conservative power
  Patrick Neufeld 46
• Not Creator, Creativity
  Jesse Nathan
• Artistic freedom must engage culture
  Suzi Gablik
• When the body protests
  Diane Driedger
• The congrgation as art
  Rick Diamond 8
• See and do
  Beverly Jones 37
• Listen while I lie to you
  sam Hell 40