“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse “People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me”. -Soren Kierkegaard The Christian Visual Artist today has a unique mission to move, inform and communicate to others about their perception of society and culture. They can bring a Christian worldview to light in the public square and in a flash of a moment bring a message to the individual that would normally not be reachable in a verbal discussion. This is a wonderful thing and a frustrating thing. They are both filled with joy when th ..read more

Deborah First LightFlocks and SchoolsFormingIn His ImageTree of Life Deborah Hoover Art has always been a part of my life. One of my earliest memories is my dad giving me a pencil and a small note pad so I would sit still in church. It worked and I filled the pages with little drawings. Looking back it surprises me that at the age of five years old I was recognizing that some pages were (accidentally) better designed. Kendall College of Art and Design is where I received my training in graphic arts. I worked at a typesetting company and dabbled in watercolor painting. “Retiring” from the types ..read more

“Originally the field of psychology had a threefold mission: to cure mental illness, yes, but also to find ways to make life fulfilling for all and to maximize talent. Over the last century, a focus on mental illness has often been prioritized over studies of health, to the point that many people assume “psychologist” is just another way of saying “psychotherapist.” This book is about one attempt to restore the discipline’s larger mission.” Listen to Dr. Charles Hackney share some fascinating insights about this fascinating branch of psychology with Edge of Faith. The added plus of bringing a ..read more

Editor’s Letter In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. – Genesis 1:1 ESV Table of Content Let Creation Rejoice The Spaces Between – Eric Jacobsen The Spaces Between – Eric Jacobsene Reimagining Paradise and the Nature of Compassion by Arthur Aghajanian Reimagining Paradise and the Nature of Compassion by Arthur Aghajanian Stewards of Eden – Sandra Richter Forty Days at Being a One Art Gallery – June 2021 June Art Gallery ..read more

Carol Aust Candle Light – acrylics on canvas, 38″x53″ Her Own Music – acrylics on canvas, 40″x40″ Orca – acrylics on canvas, 40″x40″ Wherever – Wood Panel Wolves – acrylics on canvas, 40″x40″ Carol Aust paints in acrylics on canvas and wood panels from her studio in Oakland, California. Her figurative paintings are emotionally charged narrative fragments which express the human need for connection and belonging and the difficulty of achieving either. Each subject in her paintings is at some critical juncture of a spiritual/psychological journey, traveling though landscapes of expansive clouds ..read more

Any of us can find aspects of ourselves in any of the numbers of the Enneagram. It is a beautiful tool that identifies your strengths and weaknesses and then helps you to find peace in them. Unlike many personality inventory tools, the Enneagram is a much broader scoped theory that shows your personality when feeling strong and healthy or weaker and not feeling your best. It has a wide range of descriptions, even within a number, by adding additional attributes you may have with the numbers nearest you on the diagram.  If you are unfamiliar with the Enneagram and the numbers, you will ..read more

A repost from Edge of Faith Issue on August of 2020. Come to the table and listen to Sandra Richter as she shares what a Christian’s responsibility, as laid out by the Bible, to the Earth. Take a fascinating journey through some of what the Old Testament law states about environmentalism. You will be amazed, but should not be surprised, how God wants us to steward His creation. Listen Here Sandra L. Richter (PhD, Harvard University) is Robert H. Gundry Chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College and a member of the Committee for Biblical Translation for the NIV. Her scholarly publications ..read more

For I have learned / To look on nature, not as in the hour / Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes / The still, sad music of humanity, / Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power / To chasten and subdue. And I have felt / A presence that disturbs me with the joy / Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime / Of something far more deeply interfused, / Whose dwelling is the light / of setting suns, / And the round ocean and the living air, / And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; / A motion and a spirit, that impels / All thinking things, all objects of all thought, / And rolls through a ..read more

The Spaces Between – Eric Jacobsen was originally posted in January of 2016. Edge of Faith thought it would be appropriate as a repost for this issue. We are responsible, and mandated, to be take of the earth. We should start by creating a sacred space in our backyard. If this is your first time to read this article then enjoy! If it is a repeat for you then please take it’s message to heart as you enjoy this issue on how we should steward the planet directly around us ..read more

A review of some of the big issues that are currently happening to our planet and what we can do to help make it better as Christians. Editors Review: “Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes.” Psalm 96:13 The Bible is bathed with images of God caring for his creation in all its complexity. Yet in the face of climate change and other environmental trends, philosophers, filmmakers, environmentalists, politicians and senior scientists increasingly resort to apocalyptic rhetoric to warn us that a so-called perfect storm of factors threatens the future of life on earth. Jonathan M ..read more