Art + Faith: A Theology of Making--A Response to Katie Kresser

In responding to my Art+Faith: A Theology of Making, many have correctly, as Ms. Kresser has done, connected my "slow art" to the pre-industrial mode of creating handmade objects, and to interpret my book as a call to move against the industrial path of utilitarian pragmatism.1 The return to "handmade culture" of the pre-industrial time can be an antidote to such a dehumanizing force of modem times. [...]it may be important to emphasize that I am pro-science and technology, was one of the first artists to have a website in the mid-90s, and had an active Twitter feed as early as 2009. 2 N. T. Wright, introduction to Art + Faith: A Theology of Making (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), ix. 3 My transliteration of the Greek term kainos as in, "In Christ, you are a New (kainos) Creation."