Whether you accept it or not, airbrushing is a trend that’s not going anywhere. Photographs are drastically altered to become more appealing. This almost always includes slimming the body, smoothing wrinkles, whitening teeth, increasing cleavage, etc. When it’s made public, magazines get in hot water because it gives a false representation of what’s really there.
Kamilla Wladyka's "reverse retouched" cover photo.
But what about when magazines edit photos not to slim their models, but beef them up? ...
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by Alyssa
on Feb 15, 2011
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.” 1 Peter 3:4+5
This verse came to mind today as we were talking about Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign and how society tells women it’s all about outward ...
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by Brianna
on Feb 9, 2011
II Corinthians 3:3- “And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
God intended for the Gospel to be communicated directly from person to person, that is, through relationship. The thread which is woven throughout the story of God’s redemption of His once perfect creation is relationship—is love. God ...
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“I have felt that people have mistaken my own efforts, such as they are-first in painting, then in sermons, when in fact they were only experimental works containing many flaws…By the way some Christians discussed or even savaged my work, I asssume they thought I was trying to ‘say’ something in the same way as for instance I am ‘saying’ something on the arts in this non-fiction book.” Frances Schaeffer (Art and Soul 146).
As I ...
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In the first section of this journey to find the connection between art and social justice, I critiqued the Church for the dichotomy that is so often found within her doors. Though it is rarely articulated, there is often a distinction underling the thinking in evangelical institutions, that theology and doctrine has credence but art is more decorative and flashy than anything else. God teaches otherwise. (more…)
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Mother Teresa once said she could not go a day without hearing God say “I love you.” We need grace like we need oxygen. When I jump on the El, or rather schlep my body step-by-step up those cold metallic steps to wait among other exhausted souls in a cacophony of urban bustle, I witness suffocation. I-pods plug the ears and Red Eye tabloids clog the mind. There is no silence in which to hear ...
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“In the Middle Ages, art, music, and architecture were considered ‘spiritual’ because their most frequent purpose was the service of the church.” Writes Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin in their book; “Art and Soul- signposts for the Christian Arts”
What have we lost? Why is it today that art is looked down upon at the church, where in the past, it was considered to be worship.
I sat outside today, only for about an ...
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Sometimes we see art and think it must be prophetic and profound. We think there must be a story behind, or even a deep purpose that only the true intellect or artistic mind would ever comprehend. I am curious if it is possible to take a picture with the desire to tell a story, only to have it twisted into the story the eye of the beholder wants to see. When I was standing on ...
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y Kaity Anczer
I remember the day I finally held my very first SLR, a Nikon D40. Anticipation ran through every part of my body as I took my first picture. I went to an amazing park and could not wait to capture the beauty I was surrounded by. I thought that with the right equipment, I would finally be able to shoot the perfect picture that would capture a moment that would be breathtaking and ...
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Welcome to the genesis of a student journal of Christian communication and culture created as a project of Moody Bible Institute students for the course “Biblical Perspectives of Media and Culture.”
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