Via Image magazine on Facebook, here is an interesting piece at pop culture mag Paste: a discussion of Sufjan Stevens and the general situation of the Christian artist in an anti-Christian culture. In general it's not anything that anyone familiar with the thinking of writers like Walker Percy hasn't already heard, but it's interesting that it appears here. It supports what I've long believed: that Christians should stop griping about hostility to their beliefs and concentrate on producing good art. Yes, bad or mediocre non- or anti-Christian art gets accepted while Christian art of equal merit does not, but really good Christian art will find a secular audience.
The Paste writer's theology seems pretty thin: one's encounter with God may first be intuitive and personal (though for some it begins in reason). But that doesn't mean that reason has no place at all.
Here is one of the Sufjan Stevens songs referred to in the article.
Light On Dark Water 
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