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Beauty Matters

Creation, new creation, & aesthetic awareness

N.T. Wright believes beauty matters. I agree.

I believe that taking creation and new creation seriously is the way to understand and revitalize aesthetic awareness and perhaps even creativity among Christians today. Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

— N.T. Wright, On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians (New York: HarperCollins, 2022)

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Ryan writes for weary pilgrims learning to follow Jesus through the wilderness. He served as a lead pastor at a church in Southern California for 8+ years. Before that, he worked as a software engineer for a decade. Today, he lives with his family in Escondido, California.

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