How AI Affects Everything (with Chase Tremaine)
Chase Tremaine joins Michael to discuss recent developments in AI, discussing the potential of an imminent AI bubble bursting.
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Cultivating conversations about the intersection of the arts and faith in order to liberate Christian creativity.
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Michael explores the benefits and costs of technology and what that means for the coming crisis of adopting AI.
2025 Mailbag Full of Explicit Content, What Makes Art Good, and Unstrange Fire
Michael answers an international mailbag full of great questions to close out 2025 on the Renew the Arts podcast.
Top 5 Things Churches Should Communicate to Their Artists
Michael collects together the top five things he thinks churches should communicate to their artists.
The Use and Abuse of Fiction
Michael explains the popular dismissal of fiction and the imagination, and explores the edifying uses of fiction.
The Little Things are the Great Things
Michael compares and contrasts the great way that seeks first worldly prominence with the little way of the cross that seeks God’s kingdom.
Exploited Art: Propaganda, Pornography, Pomp, and Product
Michael explores the way the true purpose of art is undermined when we make exploited art—art made subject to an agenda.