Three Word-Pictures for Patrons and Artists

| March 20, 2025 | 1 comment

Michael returns for the 2025 RTA podcast season with an offering of three word-pictures for patrons and artists. First, “Space Station Christianity” seeks to answer the question, “Are the arts and beauty actually essential?” Second, “Antibiotic vs. Probiotic Culture” seeks to show the distinction between Culture War and Culture Care. Finally, “Miniature for Scale” frames some advice for making art about larger-than-life realities. We hope these word-pictures help to clarify your relationship to the arts as we delve this season into “flourishing” with the arts.

Stay tuned until the end to hear “Brother Please,” from the single America!, by Warbler. Many thanks again to Ryan Lane of Civilized Creature for providing our theme music for the season, in this case an instrumental version of his track “Spirit Move” from the album Whose House.

LINKS

Kevin Kelly, Out of Control, pdf

Biosphere

“Are Sermons Enough to Preach the Whole Counsel of God?” (Part 1 of 2), by Michael Minkoff, Jr.

“Are Sermons Enough to Preach the Whole Counsel of God?” (Part 2 of 2), by Michael Minkoff, Jr.

Noella Marcellino

“Miniatures Add Grand Scale,” by Simon Gray

Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor

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1 Comment

  1. Andrei Cicala
    Andrei Cicala on July 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM

    Thank you for great insight. The people out of the US are just trying to grasp the whole truth about arts in the Kingdom. There is a Spirit move in that area in the Europe, but I just can’t discern if it is moving differently than in the US (which I highly doubt), or it is in the phase of it’s inception considering all the thruts ee learned from RTA. In that sence, I feell like we’re taking a fight face to face and in trenches, trying to persuade (but not by coercion of course, or at least I try not to) people in the Church that we realy need to live a life in all of it’s (that is God’s) abundance, which include all the arts.

    So, my questions is again: any advice on “trench fighting”? Thanks!

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