an interesting article can be read here. while he is not the expert he probably thinks he is, and while he is at times painfully brutal and sarcastic, he is an entertaining writer, and gives us christians a look at what we unfortunately look like to the rest of the world, particularly when it comes to the arts...an area where we should be leading the world, because of our desire to worship our god with our god-given creativity, but for whatever reason, it's the exact opposite. i think i unfortunately agree with a lot of the article, which, i guess is what makes it so sad!...or at least embarassing. at any rate, its an interesting read.

"What makes the stuff so half-assed, so thin, so weak and cumulatively so demoralizing (even to me, a sympathetic journalist who'd secretly love to play the brash contrarian and rate the Left Behind books above Tom Clancy) has nothing to do with faith. The problem is lack of faith. Ark culture is a bad Xerox of the mainstream, not a truly distinctive or separate achievement. Without the courage to lead, it numbly follows, picking up the major media's scraps and gluing them back together with a cross on top." -Mr. Kern