Read Like an Artist: Identification & Points of Contact
We aren’t supposed to identify with Aragorn and what it would be like to become King of Gondor; we’re supposed to put ourselves in the shoes
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Hi, my name's Kevin.
I'm a Poet & former Youth Leader, but you can call me...
The Bible Artist
I believe the Arts can give us fresh eyes to see the significance of the Bible and the beauty of the Gospel.
I also believe the Bible can provide the arts with complex characters and stories with profound insight into the human condition.
Join me as I explore biblical adaptations like The Chosen and seek to cultivate greater appreciation for creativity, the arts, and adaptation within the Christian community.
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Kevin Keating
- Jun 10, 2019
- 5 min
Read Like An Artist: Adapting Biblical Characters
those who read biblical stories with an intent to create Bible Art should have an eye out for the ways characters resist a simple dichotomy
Kevin Keating
- Jun 3, 2019
- 3 min
Read Like An Artist: The "Why" of Reading Matters
Bible Artists have a unique perspective when they approach a biblical story, because creating something out of that story forces them to
Kevin Keating
- May 27, 2019
- 6 min
6 Ways to Infuse Creativity & the Arts into Youth Ministry
Many churches have artists, professional or amateur, who would like to find more ways to share their gifts but don’t know how.
Kevin Keating
- May 20, 2019
- 5 min
Adapting Jonah: Questions for Bible Artists
Without careful thought, we tend to produce Bible Art that is fairly derivative of whatever adaptive traditions we've inherited.
Kevin Keating
- May 6, 2019
- 10 min
Project-Based Learning, Bible Art, & Gen Z: Cultivating Biblical Literacy With Adaptation Projects
Even when creators enter into the process of adaptation with only marginal connection to the Bible, taking biblical stories from one medium
Kevin Keating
- Apr 29, 2019
- 13 min
Project-Based Learning, Bible Art, & Gen Z: 7 Ways PBL Can Transform Youth Ministry
Our goal in ministering to Gen Z shouldn’t simply be to feed our students on Scripture today; it should be to help them develop the skills..
Kevin Keating
- Apr 18, 2019
- 5 min
12 Bible Movie Adaptations for Easter & Passover: The Gospel Acc. St. Matthew & The Gospel of John
Whereas many Bible movies adapting Jesus’ life draw on all four, these films chose to follow only one gospel account of Jesus’ life quite cl
Kevin Keating
- Apr 17, 2019
- 4 min
12 Bible Movie Adaptations for Easter and Passover: Prince of Egypt & Joseph King of Dreams
As animated films, Prince of Egypt & Joseph King of Dreams aren’t free to luxuriate over all the spectacle in the same way that The 10 Comma
Kevin Keating
- Apr 16, 2019
- 4 min
12 Bible Movie Adaptations for Easter & Passover: The Ten Commandments
if you haven’t read the book of Exodus recently, you can be forgiven for failing to distinguish parts of the film that are from other biblic
Kevin Keating
- Apr 15, 2019
- 3 min
12 Bible Movie Adaptations for Easter & Passover: The Robe & Risen
...it’s helpful to see both The Robe and Risen as falling into a common genre, the Conversion Story.
Kevin Keating
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
12 Bible Movie Adaptations for Easter & Passover: Last Days in the Desert
this newly invented episode doesn’t directly follow any of the temptations recorded in the gospels but instead explores what might have happ
Kevin Keating
- Mar 25, 2019
- 6 min
17 Surprising Influences on Bible Art & Adaptation (Part 3)
Until relatively recently, Bible artists could assume that most people were relatively familiar with the stories that they adapted.
Kevin Keating
- Mar 18, 2019
- 6 min
17 Surprising Influences on Bible Art & Adaptations (Part 2)
Bible Art doesn’t need to be subversive in order for it to have a different purpose than its source. The Jesus Storybook Bible differs from
Kevin Keating
- Mar 11, 2019
- 4 min
17 Surprising Influences on Bible Art and Adaptations (Part 1)
Depictions of certain biblical scenes or characters is often so prevalent and so uniform that the creators of Bible Art don't even realize..
Kevin Keating
- Mar 8, 2019
- 3 min
I Was Saved Through Art
I can hardly overstate how important Bible Art has been in my faith – it was literally the tool that God used to convert me.
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