Culture & the Arts from the Perspective of Leroy Forlines
In describing the profound impact of F. Leroy Forlines on students, pastors, and laypeople, one writer said that “his most valuable contribution was a theology that is big enough, deep enough, and meaningful enough to impact all of life.”[1] One way in which Forlines has had a big, deep, and meaningful impact in my own […]
Seek Truth, Beauty, and Goodness . . . but Avoid “Cultural Snobbery”
The first time I heard the quote, “A thing worth doing is worth doing badly,” was from Robert Picirilli after I presented a paper on Leroy Forlines’s view of the arts. Much of what follows below on the topic of cultural snobbery is from that paper. The chief duty of man is, as the Westminster […]