God the Artist: Crafted to Make a Statement

When I think of masterpieces, I think of art. But what is art? I like the way that Thomas Hoving, who was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, put it:

“Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.”

I like that because, as I reflect on my life, the life of the prophets, the life of a church, and the life of the people of…