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  Christopher Laurence Examines - Artist Spotlight: Eric Parrot Christopher Laurence: What is your Faith Background? Eric Parrot: I’m Catholic, as the majority of Brazilians still are. Christopher Laurence: When did you first become interested in art? Eric Parrot: I’ve had from the beginning an obvious aptitude for drawing, and it all came from there. Christopher Laurence: Did you study art in any formal setting or are you self-taught? Eric […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - Artist Spotlight: Kolt Kodesh   For many people, the term hip-hop conjures up images of music which extols all manner of things contrary to a good Christian sensibility. And it conjures these images not without reason; much of hip-hop and rap (at least most of what finds mainstream success) is absolutely at odds with morality and unfit for Christian enjoyment. But there are some young artists […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - Through the Message, All is Made Good Nearly all of modern life is an affliction. Either we struggle, like the salmon pushing upstream, against the cool water’s flow of life ordered by The Lord; or we embrace Christ, which comes with the Cross, and thereby all of modernity afflicts us in turn. Modern conveniences, hypnotically named so as to sway us to be convinced of their […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Christopher Laurence Examines Artist Spotlight: Baritus Catholic Illustration Hey, do you like cool stickers? Don’t answer that; of course you do. What about slick t-shirts, especially if they feature Catholic imagery? Again, this is rhetorical. “But, Christopher,” I can hear you about to say, “these things don’t exist! Catholic products are either ugly or corny or cheap Chinese-made crap.” Ah ha! Normally, formerly, sure. Enter Chris Lewis, aka Baritus […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - Artist Spotlight: Andrés Farías Andrés Farías is slowly gaining a Twitter following which includes some very prominent creators and artists, partly for his artwork, but I would say also (and perhaps moreso) for his seeming joy and humility. Andrés is a Catholic artist, largely employing a manga style, but possessing a multifaceted talent, who is using his work to bring joy, attempt to help his family, […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - Y U NO Read? “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” -Ezra Pound     What is the difference between watching a movie or binge watching a series, and reading a book? No, really: what differentiates them? Both engage the eyes and the mind. Both require a time commitment. Both are forms of recreation, at […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - The World's Happiness, or Christs? In Greek and Christian philosophy, following from the Aristotelian tradition, there are levels to happiness: Laetus is material happiness. A happiness reliant on things, objects, possessions and money. Fleeting, shallow and far too conditional to have any penetrating depth or longevity. You have a cheeseburger; you are happy while eating it. The cheeseburger is gone; the happiness you derived from it […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - Why Bother?   The modern creative landscape is an anfractuous maze of tin-can walls, adrift on an unmoored barge in a raging tempest, where one’s morality has a frighteningly tenuous perch in a crow’s nest of worm-rotted, creaking wood. It is with great frequency that I find myself lamenting the lack of well-intentioned, talented, traditional Catholics being involved in the arts and media, but I’ve come […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Christopher Laurence Examines - Watch Your Profanity  Let’s do an experiment, I’m curious about something. Raise your hand if you turn off a TV show, movie, YouTube video, podcast, etc, as soon as you hear the Lord’s name taken in vain. If you have your hand up I commend you. If you don’t, ask yourself why. Not metaphorically. Really ask yourself why. What stops you from just shutting something […]