As the article goes on to explain, other churches have begun to follow Sherwood’s example, producing films like The Grace Card, The Glass Window and To Save a Life.
When I went to see the Courageous premiere, of course, I was not expecting anything avant-garde. I had not seen any of their previous movies, but I understood that Sherwood Pictures is not out to push the envelope of filmmaking. Does that mean it’s not “art” in the strict sense of the term? When Curtis Chang asked Daniel Siedell, a Christian professor of art history, whether Thomas Kinkade paintings were works of art, Siedell responded that art “should force us to rethink our beliefs about the world.” Kinkade’s work, however, “only reconfirms and solidifies what we [Christians] already think about the world.”
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