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Renew the Arts Podcast, 81 episodes.

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The Value of Arts Education in Community (with Gracie McBride)

2

Reimagining Christian Fiction (with Phillip Snyder)

3

Three Rules of Thumb to Avoid the Abuses of AI (with Chase Tremaine)

4

How AI Affects Everything (with Chase Tremaine)

5

On the Craft of Songwriting and Authentic Pop (with Aryn Michelle)

6

Bless Your Limitations: A Talk About AI with Rusty Hein

7

How Art Bots and AI Slop Will Rehumanize the Arts

8

Rich Kid Syndrome and the Decadent Empire of AI

9

2025 Mailbag Full of Explicit Content, What Makes Art Good, and Unstrange Fire

10

Top 5 Things Churches Should Communicate to Their Artists

11

The Use and Abuse of Fiction

12

The Little Things are the Great Things

13

Exploited Art: Propaganda, Pornography, Pomp, and Product

14

Porchlight at Audiofeed 2025: Mini-Conference on Hospitality

15

Connecting Science and Art (with Ciara Reyes-Ton)

16

On “A Kingdom of Tea and Strangers” (with Houston Coley)

17

One Anothering in An Othering Age (with Chase Tremaine)

18

Three Word-Pictures for Patrons and Artists

19

Mailbag: 1,000 True Fans, Earned Gifts, Magic, and Christmas!

20

Narcissism and the Gifted Artist

21

Missions and the Power of Storytelling (with Roy Sneed)

22

Patrons and the Problem of Fame

23

The Artist and the Problem of Fame

24

Art and the Evangelical Imagination (with Karen Swallow Prior)

25

What is Poetry Good For? (with Paul J. Pastor)

26

Looking for the Life of the World to Come (with Brian Brown)

27

Why You Need Better Taste and How to Get It

28

Looking Forward Looking Back

29

Fruitful Worship with Ryanne Molinari

30

Is Art a Ministry, a Hobby, or a Profession?

31

Deconstruction and the Arts

32

Deep Dive: Wrestling by Warbler

33

Do Poor People Make Poor Patrons?

34

What Can We Learn from Intentional Communities?

35

The Spirit of the Porchlight Network

36

An Artistic Antidote to Division

37

Weep with Those Who Weep with Wendell Kimbrough

38

Art and Recovery with Cynthia Giles and Alexia Jones

39

Art and Trauma with Cynthia Giles and Chi T. Mathias

40

Art and Mental Hygiene with Cynthia Giles and Lydia Jones

41

Ditching DC for Music City with Erik Løkkesmoe

42

Collaborative Community with Hallowell’s Joseph Pensak

43

Why the Arts Matter More than the Election

44

David Hamilton of RYFO on Keys to Healing the Artist-Church Divide

45

Sex ’n Hip-Hop with Sho Baraka

46

John Van Deusen: A Different Kind of “Hymn”

47

How to Solve a Puzzle Like Marty Sampson

48

Interview with Michael Wright

49

Interview with George Grant

50

Interview with Anthony Quails

51

Interview with Derek Webb

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3:10 — Mailbag Season 3

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3:09 — Art History Now!

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3:08 — Pop Goes the Easel

55

3:07 — Existentialism

56

3:06 — Ceci N’est Pas Une Podcast

57

3:05 — Keepin’ It Realism … and Impressionism

58

3:04 — Isn’t It Romanticism?

59

3:03 — Well, If it Ain’t Baroque…

60

3:02 — What Does Classical Mean Anyway?

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3:01 — Why is Art History Important for Christians?

62

2:10 — Mailbag for Season Two

63

2:09 — What Do You Do with Good Art Made by Unbelievers?

64

2:08 — Are You Called to be an Artist?

65

2:07 — The Art of Prophecy

66

2:06 — What Do Church Buildings Say About the Church?

67

2:05 — Art as Hospitality

68

2:04 — Art and Evangelical Gnosticism

69

2:03 — How Will Unbelievers Meet God?

70

2:02 — Collective Repentance and the Arts with Jesse Murray

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2:01 — What is Art?

72

1:10 — Are We Overstating The Importance Of The Arts?

73

1:09 — Shouldn’t Christians Be Better At Telling Redemption Stories?

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1:08 — Why So Many Christian Artists Are At Odds With The Church

75

1:07 — Go Bleep Yourself

76

1:06 — Unified Does Not Mean Uniform

77

1:05 — Why Unbelievers Hate Christian Art

78

1:04 — Politics is Downstream From Culture

79

1:03 — Why the Church Should Make More Ugly Art

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1:02 — Who Will Replace Billy Graham?

81

1:01 — Two Biggest Lies Christians Believe About The Arts