This week on The Artistic Vision Podcast, we have poet Scott Carins to talk about poetry, faith, and imagination.

Scott Cairns is the author of ten books of poetry. His most recent book is Lacunae, published by Paraclete Press. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing and Best American Spiritual Writing. Besides writing poetry, Cairns has also written a spiritual memoir, and the libretto for the oratorios “The Martyrdom of Saint Polycarp” and “A Melancholy Beauty.” Cairns has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was awarded the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.

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This week, pastor and author Claude Atcho joins the Artistic Vision to talk with Gary and Alex about the formative power of literature with a brief conversation on hip hop and Kendrick Lamar.

Claude resides in Charlottesville, VA where he lives with his family and serves as a pastor of Church of the Resurrection. In addition to his preaching and pastoral work, Claude speaks and writes about literature, film, music, and culture from a theological perspective at churches, conferences, and universities.

His writing has been featured in Christianity Today, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Think Christian, Christ and Pop Culture, Living Church, and The Gospel Coalition. His writing often lives at the intersection of theology, culture, and African American experience. He is the author of Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just (Brazos 2022).

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Have you ever wondered what you’re supposed to be looking at when you look at art? What are you supposed to do when you enter a gallery? Elissa Yukiko Weichbort joins the Artistic Vision Podcast today to help Christians look and think about art.

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt (PhD, Washington University in St. Louis) is associate professor of art and art history at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. As a biracial Japanese-white woman, she has navigated the joys and tensions of a hybrid identity. Weichbrodt has published on topics ranging from contemporary Black photographers to the patronage of Hawaiian landscape paintings to documentary photographs of Japanese Americans during World War II. She also enjoys writing for general audiences on the intersection of art history, politics, and pop culture.

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