“If your relatives are creeped out about you being an artist, tell them you’re an entrepreneur,” Luann Jennings, director of Redeemer Presbyterian Church‘s Center for Faith & Work in New York City, half-joked at Selling Yourself without Selling Out: An Introduction to Marketing...

(This post is the second part of a series exploring the unique obstacles Christian artists face in marketing themselves, and how to get over the hangups.  You can read Part 1 here.) “Who are you?” the caterpillar asked Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.  It’s an important...

Self-promotion.  It sounds like such a dirty word.  Is it sinful to promote yourself?  Is it selling out to want to earn a living off of your art?  Or, is promotion a critical component of a successful arts career?  Redeemer Presbyterian Church‘s Center for Faith & Work in New York City...

Back in 1993, the Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline recorded what most would consider their greatest hit: “Big House.”  For years, the song, off of their Don’t Censor Me album (ForeFront Records), played incessantly on Christian radio stations.  The band was huge in the Christian...

Every other year, Calvin College hosts a Festival of Faith & Writing that brings together some of the brightest writers of our generation whose works Diane shared her homemade hummus illuminate “spiritual understanding, grace, or transcendence.”  In addition to speakers like...

Last month I flew out to Michigan to represent Burnside at the Festival of Faith and Writing (FFW).  I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Midwest.  I mean, I’m from Manhattan.  My perception is that the Midwest must be so cold, flat, and boring that anyone with any shred of culture wants...

They—the ubiquitous they—tell us not to do it, and yet we do it anyway, don’t we?  We judge books by their covers.  The sentiment behind the old adage surely rings with the type of truth that speaks toward enlightened thinking—not just about books, mind you, but life in general.  After all,...

In between sharing pics of his Jersey Shore makeover and playing Taboo while promoting his latest film Youth in Revolt on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last month (January 25, 2010, episode), Michael Cera talked about his reputation as a photobomber.  Nothing at all as terrorizing as the underwear bomber,...

Kendrick's "Markers" / Photo by Stephanie Nikolopoulos Earlier this week I was making my way from one publishing house to another, and decided to take a shortcut.  Usually, I stick to 5th Avenue so I can window shop my way to meetings.  Monday, though, I decided to get back to nature. ...

Fisheye is so yesterday.  Today’s cool photography toy is The Bokeh Filter.  This is seriously surreal.  You know those blurry little orbs of light in the background of your photographs?  Well, the Bokeh Filter transforms them into more magical elements, like stars or hearts. The best part...