Kevin Keating

Jun 28, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Kevin Keating

To understand whether the creation or use of a visual representation of Jesus violates the second commandment, we must ask whether the work: diverts glory away from God and toward a false object, distorts the story of God’s relationship with his people, or diminishes God’s nature and deforms those who use it. While icon veneration may divert glory away from God, narrative and exegetical depictions of Jesus perform a different function.

Jun 19, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Don Carson |Ryan McGraw |Kevin Keating |Alan Noble

Don Carson: I suggested earlier that the most conceptually difficult of the six pillars was the fourth, with those two propositions concerning the mystery of providence. At the end of our last session I discussed one thing the Bible speaks about concerning this: suffering as a preparation for believers to help others.

Jun 19, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Steve Bateman |Ryan McGraw |Kevin Keating |Alan Noble

In 1863, a man on a horse could travel the 253 miles from Washington, DC, to Hale’s Ford, Virginia, in two weeks. It took the Emancipation Proclamation two years to make that journey. Booker T. Washington distinctly remembered the moment in May 1865 when he heard the good news of his freedom. His mother, the enslaved cook on a Virginia plantation, was standing next to the 9-year-old Washington while a Union officer read Lincoln’s Proclamation, which had been issued on January 1, 1863.

Jun 18, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Brett McCracken |Zach Carter |Ryan McGraw |Kevin Keating

When Inside Out released in 2015, it represented the best of Pixar: gorgeous animation, brilliant original storytelling, and layers of meaning for kids and adults alike. It was the last truly groundbreaking movie in the “peak Pixar” era. Though there are a few exceptions, much of Pixar’s output since 2015 has been underwhelming at best or annoyingly agenda-driven at worst. Recent box-office flops like Elemental launched much discussion about how Pixar lost its way.

Jun 13, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Kevin Keating |Zach Carter |Kevin DeYoung |Andrew Spencer

But people today aren’t dumb. Many nonreaders can talk for hours about the history, characters, and metaphysics of fictional universes like the MCU. This is a form of literacy; it just isn’t grounded in books. It’s grounded in visual media. Advertise on TGCIt’s not surprising, then, that visual adaptations of biblical stories like The Chosen have been so influential in recent years. Such works help nonreaders access biblical stories, characters, and ideas.