What if true beauty is a glimpse of what is yet to come? In ‘On Finding Beauty’, @PeterBenSmit explores how true beauty reflects God’s glory, manifested through justice and mercy, foreshadowing the world’s future renewal. Available now on Between Times: between-times.co.uk/beauty/o…

In ‘Beauty in the Body’, Lynneth Miller Renberg explores how medieval Christian dance traditions offer an alternative to some contemporary views of bodies and beauty, presenting embodied beauty as a reflection of Christ. Link in comments👇

In ‘The Beauty of the Crucified Christ’, Chiara Bertoglio explores the paradoxical beauty of Christ’s suffering through music and harmony. Read now on Between Times: between-times.co.uk/beauty/t…

In ‘Beauty and Persuasion in Fiction’, Louise McCray explores how beauty shapes the way stories persuade us, and why that matters for Christian writers and readers. Read now on Between Times: between-times.co.uk/beauty/b…

Beauty doesn’t just delight us. It persuades us. In ‘Beauty and Persuasion in Fiction’, Louise McCray explores why aesthetic understanding is indispensable to a serious ethics of fiction, and why Christians should pay attention to the ways stories shape us. Link in comments👇

We have become skilled at looking beautiful. But have we become beautiful people? J. J. Snodgrass asks how Christians should think about appearance in an age of filters, cosmetic procedures, and looksmaxxing - and what beauty has to do with becoming like Christ. Link in comments

In his article ‘The Beauty of Holiness’, Graham Ward explores how artistic creativity participates in the divine act of creation, refracting ‘the beauty of holiness’ through the making of the beautiful, and inspiring others to worship.

What does it mean to worship the Lord in the 'beauty of holiness'? Graham Ward explores the phrase through Thomas Aquinas and William Blake, asking where the Good, the True and the Beautiful converge — and how it relates to the human artist.