The summer series is called Interviews with the Artists. In the series Cody Anderson interviews a wide range of popular and not so popular artists in their fields. Some of these interviews cover music, writing, design, computer animation, satire, novels, home-made music videos, orchestras, Biblical historical fiction, and more...!

This episode we welcome an artist who is a staff writer for Humble Beast, a Spoken Word Poet, and Pastoral Assistant at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Isaac Adams. Heard Isaac speak at TGC 17 this year when he did a spoken word piece for MLK50, a conference on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. assassination.

In this interview we talk about Isaac and his art of writing and spoken word poetry and how that started in high school with writing love songs for crushes and how God intervened and redeemed his abilities as a lyricist for His Glory. 

We talk about his writing for Humble Beast and the three areas in which he aims his writing: The Local Church and how its indispensable, Race and understanding of the way things are seen, and The Arts and letting art be what it is. We talk about how these things impact his art, his preaching and teaching, and his writing. 

As we talk about art we get into how art is a type of thievery and how we need to take art and make it our own in that idea. How good art seems to always have a protagonist and an antagonist. How Christian art doesn't have to explicitly mention God or the Gospel to be good art and more.

Good art can be hard to find but it rewards your efforts. The world needs poetry because the world needs to slow down. Christian art tends to be schlawcky art or lazy art. These are some more topics we hit as we talk about art and art cultures. 

We also talk about Star Wars and what makes it so great even though its a non-christian find industry and George Lucas didn't intend for it to be a Christian piece. We, as Christians, can take good art made by the world and redeem the Gospel centric areas of that art and use it for our benefit and God's Glory. Join us as we talk about these things and more...

Isaac Adams' top recommendations and musts:

1. Christians Pray for your art

2. Have friends audit your art

3. Get a survey or review of you art annually from people you know

4. Challenge yourself and publish to non-christian outlets

You can follow Isaac Adams here:

Twitter: @isickadams

Website: isickadams

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Outro Music: Spoken Word on Martin Luther King, Jr. — Isaac Adams

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