“A Christian’s purpose in life is to be redemptive in the world. Someone who takes the example of Christ’s life as a guide can tolerate neither a refusal to become immersed in the flow of actual human life in this world nor a willingess to leave fallen human life where it is. The Christian artist’s mission is to add to the beauty, truth, and joy of the world, not its hopelessness.”– Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination
