2025 Mailbag Full of Explicit Content, What Makes Art Good, and Unstrange Fire

| December 18, 2025 | 0 comments

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!

LINKS

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 Roelofs

 

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