POPULAR SCHOLARSHIP
C.S. Lewis once wrote about the value of Christian involvement in popular scholarship. When understood broadly, Lewis’s words are instructive for Christian engagement in the arts or in any other discipline. Flannery O'Connor, like C.S. Lewis, believed that any Christian who can make good art or write good stories or teach mathematics well will do much more by that than by setting out to make Christian art or to write Christian stories. What we need isn't more books about Christianity, but more artists and writers and scientists and mathematicians who with excellence approach their work in any and every subject—with their Christianity latent. Perhaps building such subtle cathedrals on the landscape of culture is indeed more winsome than making ruins. Margaret Manning, Slice of Infinity
CHRISTIAN WORK
"Much of what is called Christian work is veneered spiritual disease; it is Christian activity that counts--dominating life from God, & every moment is filled with an energy that is not our own, a super-abounding life that nothing can stand before." Oswald Chambers, Men' Devotional Bible
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