Topic
Beauty
Hey Brand-New Mom, Ready for Your Close Up?
Reclaiming the natural beauty of delivery room pics.
April 12, 2013
Remembering Edith Schaeffer, the Evangelical in Pearls and Chanel No. 5
She helped us see art and beauty's place in Christian life.
April 1, 2013
My Top 5 Books on Creativity
Literature that reveals what art and beauty ought to be.
March 27, 2013
Gardening to Make Beauty Out of Blight
Riet Schumack is growing more than flowers among her Brightmoor neighbors.
February 8, 2013
Preach On, Victoria's Secret Model
She's pretty, privileged, and not afraid to admit it.
January 29, 2013
Planting Gardens in Prison: Why We Labor for Shalom Now
Even though we know we can't usher in God's kingdom, we're still called to establish order, beauty, and abundance in this life.
October 9, 2012
The Soul of Your Soles: Why Women Love Shoes
Celebrating those 'bursts of beauty that defy the mundane.'
July 10, 2012
Disability Is Beautiful: How the Gospel Changes the Way We See
A fashion photographer can see the beauty of a girl with albinism. Can the church?
June 18, 2012
Christ and My Curly Hair
Attempts to undo my wiry hairdo had grown to idolatrous proportions - and taken up three whole months of my life.
August 30, 2011
Should Christians Pursue External Beauty?
A controversial Psychology Today article arguing that black women are less attractive than others got me thinking about real beauty.
June 24, 2011
The Gods of the Checkout Aisle
Understanding the parareligion of celebrity culture. A review of 'Gods Behaving Badly.'
April 20, 2011
Obese and Beautiful
As the West exports its fat stigma to developing countries, the church might export its welcome embrace to those on all ends of the body mass index.
April 14, 2011
The No-Makeup Spiritual Discipline
Why going out in public without mascara and blush is an act of Christian discipleship (for me, anyway).
February 8, 2011
Miss America and the Bikini Question
Do modern-day pageants ask young evangelical women to compromise their values an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny too much?
January 20, 2011
Chasing Methuselah
Exercise, technology, and diet help us live longer than ever. Should those who look to eternal life care?
December 30, 2010
Christ of the Klingons
A physicist and a philosopher envision God's design in the beautiful equations of string theory.
December 29, 2010
The Art of Glory
Cape Cod's newly completed Church of the Transfiguration embodies the belief that beauty can nurture our communion with God.
October 20, 2010
A Theology of Jiggly Thighs
What a graying supermodel can teach Jesus' female followers.
August 18, 2010
Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, and Jesus
In 'Unsqueezed', Margot Starbuck explores what shopping and eating to the glory of God looks like.
July 2, 2010
A Bikinied Muslim Miss USA
The backlash to Rima Fakih's win suggests mainstream America still wants their national beauties to be Christian.
May 26, 2010
The Mission of Art
W. David O. Taylor grounds his aesthetic passion in the local church.
May 18, 2010
Art That Reveals Our Need for Grace
Physically disabled photographers surprising work reveals to viewer their own limitations.
April 16, 2010
Cosmetic Surgery to the Glory of God?
Christians can't dismiss such surgery until they seriously consider our God-given desire for beauty.
April 7, 2010
Lead in Your Lipstick, Carcinogens in Your Hair Color
Most of the personal care products you use every day are damaging your health, argues Samuel Epstein in 'Toxic Beauty'.
March 1, 2010
Female Olympians, Missing in Action
When it comes to female athletes, why does the media have a one-track mind?
February 12, 2010
Botox: A Threat to Our National Security
How our cultural fear of aging and dying is giving some terrorists a financial boost.
February 9, 2010
Mr. Wilson's Wild Ride
Theology in color, motion, and sensory detail. A review of N.D. Wilson's Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
September 15, 2009
Beauty Pageant for Landmine Victims Scrapped
Cambodia's government says the contest makes fun of the disabled. The founder says he's only trying to humanize them.
August 11, 2009
Is it a Sin to Nip and Tuck?
Cosmetic surgery may be one more manifestation of Paul's warning about self-improvement.
June 2, 2009
Donald Trump Says Miss California Can Keep the Crown
But will conservative Christians continue to put her on a pedestal?
May 12, 2009
Miss CA Becomes Ad Spokeswoman for Traditional Marriage
Meanwhile, two pageant directors say they paid for Prejean's breast implants weeks before Miss USA.
May 1, 2009
CreationWatch
Websites to help you rediscover the beauty of planet Earth this spring.
April 28, 2009
A Campaign for (Kind of) Real Beauty
"Real" fashion models may present as many problems as their hyper-stylized counterparts.
April 27, 2009
Losing Fashion, Finding God: The Ex-Models Who Go Evangelical
Weider is just one of a runway’s worth of women who are making a second career for themselves in religious communities by speaking out against the evils of the fashion industry. (NYMag)
Miss Universe allowing transgender women to compete in pageants; Official policy being OK’d
Pageant officials said they are working on the language of the official rule policy change but expected final word to come soon. (Associated Press)
Carrie Prejean Lawsuit Claims Religious Discrimination Led to Firing
Prejean also says Moakler told her "she had to stop mentioning God." (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
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