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Mike Cosper
Mike Cosper is pastor of worship and arts at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He writes on the gospel and the arts for The Gospel Coalition.
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Create Culture, Not Subculture
Mike Cosper | May 11, 2012 | 3:00 AMA good story can carry profound redemptive themes and portray the agonies and ecstasies of everyday life in ways that a sermon can't.
The Avengers: Very Human Superheroes
Mike Cosper | May 08, 2012 | 3:00 AMInevitably, a satisfying hero story will always involve a great, gospel-like reversal, where the odds seem insurmountable and the heroes seem overcome.
The Satanic Ideology of Photoshop
Mike Cosper | March 29, 2012 | 3:00 AMThe rule---the force that drives the market for diets and cosmetic surgery---is not health and healing but enhancing and improving.
Mad Men Returns
Mike Cosper | March 23, 2012 | 3:00 AMPerhaps if we could all see the ways that we're sin-sick like Don Draper---a tangled mess of lies, impulses and self-deception---we could more easily see how desperate we are for a Cure.
Blue Like Jazz: The Movie
Mike Cosper | March 13, 2012 | 3:00 AMMiller is giving voice to a whole generation whose fathers failed them, whose churches rang hollow, and who found friendship in the liberal world they'd been taught to hate and distrust.
The Idolatry of Youth Culture in Worship
Mike Cosper | March 01, 2012 | 6:01 AMAs the conversation unfolds, we discuss the possibility of a counter-culture---of worship as a feast, rather than a concert or a lecture.
Hoping for Another Earth
Mike Cosper | February 24, 2012 | 3:30 AMNo matter how bleak our circumstances, no matter how horrible our crime, though all our options for forgiveness have apparently dried up, we can dream that a new earth might appear in the cosmos.
The Bono Effect and Corporate Worship
Mike Cosper | February 21, 2012 | 5:57 AMHow does the current climate of mp3s and pop music shape the way the church sings?
Old Hymns for Our Day
Mike Cosper | February 13, 2012 | 1:30 AMThe rich resources of the hymnal are being rediscovered by pastors and artists alike.
Cormac McCarthy: Judges in the American Canon
Mike Cosper | February 10, 2012 | 3:00 AMJohn Piper once said on Twitter "Cormac McCarthy is to the American literary canon what Judges is to the the biblical canon." I couldn't agree more.