Faith in the Arts

Mar 14 2025 28 ep. 45 mins 18

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A podcast about art and faith with Marlita Hill, Alastair Gordon and Jonny Mellor. How can we attend again to the relationship between Christianity and the arts? Can we fix broken bridges, re-examine sources of contention, explore new ways to co-exist for the flourishing of all? Join us to find out.

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Prophetic Art (with Dr Mary McCampbell)

Mar 14 2025 65 mins

What do you think of when you think of prophetic art?Does your mind instantly turn to the subversive power of beauty, energizing hope, alternate realities, toppling empire and the ministry of attentiveness? No? Well, perhaps you should spend an hour with Dr Mary McCampbell and the FITA team!If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at [email protected] . If

Tap Dance and Discipleship (with Andrew Nemr)

Jan 31 2025 73 mins

Today’s guest is internationally acclaimed tap dancer, Andrew Nemr. He leads us on a riveting journey through the history of tap dance, the fracturing of the media landscape, sharing your process, the morning pages and recovering from burnout. Oh, and how art practice can serve as a model for Christian discipleship. To acquaint yourself with Andrew’s work, visit andrewnemr.com

What’s special about music? (with Anselm Mcdonnell)

Oct 03 2024 44 mins

Anselm Mcdonnell is back! Building on the last episode’s focus on the avant garde, the conversation moves on to music in general. How is music different to other artforms and how does music specifically relate to Christianity? After all, it’s just wiggly air, isn’t it? If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at [email protected]. If you’d like to

Why should Christians care about the Avant Garde? (with Anselm Mcdonnell)

Sep 06 2024 44 mins

Whereas Christian artists are often known for playing it safe in the arts, today’s guest, classical composer, Anselm Mcdonnell bucks this trend. His work is experimental and avant garde and that is where the conversation goes in today’s episode. What is avant garde art, why does it matter and why should Christians practise in this area? To get an intro to Anselm’s work, liste

Sacred Streets (with Jason Leith)

May 22 2024 50 mins

How can artists bring the sacred to the streets and what happens when they do? Our hosts are joined by Jason Leith, a Los Angeles based artist and the leader of Saddleback Visual Arts, to explore his work and the intersection between the humble and the holy, the seen and the hidden, the base and the transcendent and whether there will be a Starbucks on the renewed creation! If you�

Art and Artificial Intelligence (with George Aytoun)

Apr 17 2024 52 mins

AI is reshaping our world and its impact is being felt very keenly in the arts. Programs like Dali, Chat GPT and Sora have all been moving into the mainstream over the last year or so. Are they exciting tools to sharpen are artistry or do they signal the demise of the human artist? George Aytoun, head of design at Mccann Birmingham, joins the conversation to talk us through this re

We Need to Talk by Marlita Hill

Jan 30 2024 48 mins

Last time we talked about Ally’s artistry and this time we’re shining the spotlight on another one of our hosts: Marlita! We are focusing on her latest dance piece ‘We Need To Talk’ and bashing around such weight themes as communication, embodiment and art as language, at times using collections of letters that may or may not be actual words. Prepare for much phenomenologic

Quodlibet by Alastair Gordon

Dec 13 2023 38 mins

We’ve talked about some great artists this season but this one is special as it’s one of our own Faith In The Arts team. Today, we look at Ally’s own art, focusing on the first major monograph of his career, Quodlibet and the paintings All the Postcards sent to my studio (2014) and Above and Below, Bowglass. If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at hello@f

William Blake’s Illustrations on the book of Revelation

Nov 30 2023 40 mins

We loved focusing on the Book of Revelation in the last episode so we decided to keep talking about it while throwing one of the greatest British artists of all time into the mix: William Blake. Join us on a whistlestop tour of William Blake’s illustrations on the book of Revelation, focusing on the paintings The Ancient of Days, The Whore of Babylon and The Four and Twenty Elder

The book of Revelation by St John

Nov 14 2023 49 mins

Today, we’re looking at by far the most popular piece of art in the series so far. It features in a literary anthology that is by far the best selling book in history. It’s the book of Revelation by John! There will be beasts. There will be dragons. There will be absolutely no controversial opinions shared of any sort… (well, two out of three of those statements are true!) If