Christian Art = Oxymoron?

So I was cruising around Relevant’s website this morning and came across an article entitled Relevance, Faith, & Art by a singer/songwriter out of Chicago.

In it, she breaks down the major positions that Christians take on art, and critiques the problems that such positions create.

From the article:

Many contemporary Christians tend to make one of three errors when dealing with art: One, we declare anything that doesn’t explicitly proselytize, anything that depicts brokenness without redemption to be depraved or unworthy of Christian notice. Or two, we decide that the secular world really does have better art, so we copy it, boldly and without apology or thought into our own creativity. Or three, we try so hard to be relevant that we adopt the attitude and worldview of the culture that surrounds us—instead of being the proverbial salt and light, we end up as dust with nothing to offer in the way of hope, because there is only a perfunctory difference between those of us who claim to follow Christ and those who don’t.

She couldn’t be more right (righter? immersed in rightness?). In fact, I don’t even have anything to add (a first, right?) — the article speaks for itself.

Read it and let it speak to you.