beauty

Beauty is the extravagance that makes us human

By Karen Swallow Prior — September 28, 2021
(RNS) — Humans' ability to appreciate beauty reflects our nature as beings made in the image of God.

Glamour and unattainability is out. Spiritual refreshment is in

By Tara Isabella Burton — August 23, 2019
(RNS) — Today’s advertisements are designed to evoke different and more numinous emotions: spiritual well-being, an inward journey, a moral sensibility. We’re buying the very things that organized religion used to provide us for free.

Why weren’t Christians the ones to ‘ruin’ Miss America?

By Mandy McMichael — June 8, 2018
(RNS) — The little known history of how America's Christians got entangled with America's beauty pageant.

Does God want us to ‘be brilliant?’ These Christians think so.

By Jonathan Merritt — May 15, 2014
Timothy Willard and Jason Locy argue that God wants us to "be brilliant." But they don't mean what you might think.

‘No Makeup November’ inspires women to focus on inner beauty

By Katherine Burgess — November 18, 2013
(RNS) “It’s bringing awareness to true beauty and to taking off the mask,” said coordinator Becca Daniel. “I believe that there’s a need because of the culture that we live in. It’s just very much beauty-saturated: ‘beauty’ meaning what’s on the outside.”
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