The Christian Imagination: The Imago Dei in the Age of AI with Stephen Crotts

Jason Craig sits down with Stephen Crotts—illustrator of Malcolm Guite's Galahad and the Grail—to talk about what it means to be a maker in an age of AI slop, why creativity is a duty rooted in the Imago Dei, and how recovering a sense of place is essential to being human. In This Episode, We Cover:Why AI can never bear the Imago Dei—and what that means for human art and expressionThe difference between dominion and domination, and how a Christian view of creation shapes an artist's workHow building a home culture of making—music, art, and craft—forms children and familiesThe ancient process of woodcut printmaking and why embodied craft matters in a disembodied ageWhy art belongs in its proper context and what we lose when it's pulled from worship into the museumChapters:00:00 Introduction02:23 AI and the Image of God04:00 Growing up in a creative family08:30 Dominion vs. domination: a Christian view of creation16:30 Building a culture of music and making at home24:15 The woodcut printmaking process27:40 "It's not expression if it's not made by humans"34:10 Art at its highest is devotional38:40 What it means for art to have meaning45:08 Finding local stories and images to focus onResources Mentioned:Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite, illustrated by Stephen CrottsStephen Crotts' website"A British Eucharistic Odyssey: Galahad and the Grail Reviewed" by Theo HowardJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.