One Beautiful Life
Welcome to One Beautiful Life, a podcast designed for the Christ-follower seeking to live a beautiful life. With reflections on scripture and theology, exploration into the philosophy of beauty, and guest interviews to highlight the array of examples of what living a beautiful life looks like, this project is meant to serve as a jumping-off point for you and I to live a beautiful life, more fully alive in imitation of Christ, the source of beauty – and Beauty Himself.
We only have one life. Let's make it beautiful for Christ.
One Beautiful Life
Episode 2: A Plea for Creativity
I've been having lots of thoughts about creativity lately, and watching the new documentary on film composer John Williams poured fuel on that fire. In today's episode, I'm discussing some components of our current society today that have the ability to discourage creativity, and encouraging you to create for the sake of creating.
We're made in the Image and Likeness of God, and that means we've been given an ability to create because we're made in the Image and Likeness of the Creator. Creating just for the sake of creating can be counterintuitive for several reasons in today's culture, but by no means does this mean creativity shouldn't be engaged with for the sake of itself. Creativity is good for us, both in body and in soul.
Watch the John Williams documentary on Disney+
Read about the Harvard study on the universality of music
Listen to some of John Williams's best music in this Spotify playlist
