Michael is joined by long-time friend and Renew the Arts Creative Director, Rusty Hein, for a different take on AI and related topics.
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Michael continues his exploration of AI and its impact on the arts, discussing why he has hope the AI revolution will produce positive unintended consequences for artists of integrity and discipline.
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Michael begins the 2026 season of the Renew the Arts podcast with an exploration of the benefits and costs of technology, the history of the book, and how the adoption of AI will force humanity into a crisis of meaning and discipline.
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Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Michael answers an international mailbag full of great questions to close out 2025 on the Renew the Arts podcast, including discussions of how Christians should approach non-family-friendly biblical content, what makes art good, baking and cooking as an art, the Holy Spirit’s role in improvisational art as a prayer offering, and much more. Stay tuned at the end for “Spirit Move,” by Civilized Creature, featuring Isaac Wheadon, from the 2024 album Whose House.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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26k for 2026 Renew the Arts Fundraiser Sex ’n Hip-Hop with Sho Baraka Hosea, by Rachel Wilhelm 1:07 — Go Bleep Yourself The Nothing Human Podcast (first fifteen episodes on Three Powers of the Human Spirit) Sight (2024 Angel Studios Movie) The Martyr Made Podcast (Daryl Cooper) Julianna Schlager (Ballet 5:8) “Fellowship with the Worms,” by Lindsey Priest “Forever Overhead,” by David Foster Wallace Photay J. Lind, Rotations Kevin Schlereth, Settle In Brother James, Be Alive Zane Vickery, “All Things New” Warbler, “America!” [Official Music Video] Prayerbook, by Mike RoelofsMichael collects together the top five things he thinks churches should communicate to their artists, based on his decades of work in the Christian arts space. One thing you might realize after listening to this episode: these five things should be communicated to pretty much every member of a church. Nonetheless, Michael discusses why artists typically don’t hear or feel these things communicated in most churches.