Johnny Cash once said he wasn’t a Christian artist, but that he was an artist who was Christian. I try to live my life not boxed in as the world would have me be, but to live my life as an artist, a husband, a father, a brother, a son, and a man humbly serving my God. Everything I do in both my work and life is heavily influenced by my sonship in the Maker of All Good Things. It would be insincere for me no to do so.

But here, in this space, I want to focus on a right, simple and truthful portrait of what it is to be a follower of Christ in a world that looks to use faith as lightning rod subjects or to be used by ideologues for their own ends. My prayer is that you would come to a vision of God not as some political warrior king or an old codgery man living in the clouds but as a real, living and fiery person. Full of furious love and danger, but always good.

In The Lion and The Witch and The Wardrobe, Mr. Beaver spoke to the children about the mysterious Aslan. “Is he--quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”

“If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.” “Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.
“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver. “Who said anything about safe? ’Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”