David Taylor: Awakening the Artistic Ache

W. David O. Taylor, former arts pastor of Hope Chapel in Austin, Texas, and current Ph.D. student at Duke Divinity School, spoke last month to the Chicago Partnership for Church Planting about the place of the arts in church planting. Aaron Youngren, lead pastor for The Line, interviewed Taylor for The Gospel Coalition. Here Taylor talks about the formative influences that awakened his artistic ache.

Taylor, who blogs at Diary of an Arts Pastor, is a contributor to and editor of For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts. Other contributors to the book include Eugene Peterson, Lauren Winner, John Witvliet, Jeremy Begbie, Andy Crouch, and Barbara Nicolosi.

Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast, writes the weekly Unseen Things newsletter, and has written and contributed to many books, including Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation and Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. He has published with the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered commentary for CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, ABC News, and PBS NewsHour. He edited the forthcoming The Gospel After Christendom and The New City Catechism Devotional, among other books. He is an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School, where he also co-chairs the advisory board.