Interviews with the Artists is our popular summer series hosted by Cody Anderson, talking with a wide range of popular and not so popular artists in their fields. Some of these interviews cover music, writing, design, computer animation, satire, novels, home-made music videos, orchestras, biblical historical fiction, and more.
In this episode, we welcome Michael Minkoff from the Nehemiah Foundation and Renew the Arts. Michael is a multi-instrumental musician, a writer, a lyricist, and author, but primarily a poet. You could say he is the Jack-of-All-Trades, artist of many, and master of none!
This episode is packed full of great information and perspective of the arts as a whole and, more specifically, in the church. Listen in as he talks about his art, how he got into it, and how he came to the point of starting a foundation just for Christian artists who need to be heard. His heart and desire behind the Nehemiah Foundation is awesome. He knows where the culture lays in its view of the arts that come from Christendom and how Christian artists are being treated and unsupported by the church.
We talk about how the church fails, failed, and is failing to notice its talented and called artists, and how they won’t help them until they are listened to or making money. The church doesn’t take art seriously. Art is seen as either a luxury that isn’t necessary or as a commodity. But it is far more than that, it is communication. We see this in the Bible as God communicated his Word to us in the form of art through many artists. Art is central to the Gospel and it can be used for good and bad. We, as Christians and Christian artists, need to support and get behind the artists in our local congregations and stop supporting a secularized art world in the culture-at-large around us. If we want good Christian art, we are going to have to stand up and pay for it.
And you can do that through Micheal’s foundation using the links below!
Micheal’s Top recommendations:
1. Find them @ Renew the Arts
2. Flannery O”Conner Mystery and Manners
Follow or contact Michael and his foundation:
Facbook: Nehemiah Foundation for Cultural Renewal
Twitter: @MetaMinkoff
Instagram: @mminkoff
Intro Music by Physick
Outro Music by Physick
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In this show hosts Cody Anderson, Daniel Uptain, and Roy Uptain examine the Arts from a biblical perspective. We take on many different philosophical and theological views and line them up with the Scripture. We pull out the error and fallacy of the secular worldview that lies within all forms of the Arts. In doing this we examine how we are to view these arts as followers of Christ and how we need to engage our culture around us. These areas of the Arts include but are not limited to: movies, music, literature, paintings, drawings, digital, and graphic design.
- Ep 033.8: Jackie Hill Perry – Rap, Spoken Word, and Writing - August 29, 2017
- Ep 033.7 Michael Minkoff – Poetry, Music, Lyrics, and the Church - August 22, 2017
- Ep 033.6 Matthew Horne – Architecture, Drawing, and Photography - August 15, 2017
