Joshua S. Porter writes books and also does other things.
(This is his website.)
Have Christians settled for artistic bankruptcy? To understand Jesus and the Bible, you have to understand art. The art God creates and commissions comforts and encourages, and it disturbs and offends. What is art? Does it ever go too far? How should Christians understand, receive, and create it?
Joshua S. Porter presents a readable, literary, story-driven Biblical theology of the artistic and the obscene.
Josh’s music is most famously represented by the experimental art-punk band, Showbread. The band sold tens of thousands of records, appeared on the Billboard top 200 and the Billboard Top Heatseekers charts, and performed more than a thousand concerts across a dozen countries in a career spanning nearly two decades.
Post-Showbread, Josh remains musically active in his dance-punk outfit The Bell Jar, an analog synth-pop project called Church of Agony, and the industrial duo Annihilationism. He is one of the primary contributors to the Van City Church music collective, End of Death.
Follow Josh's playlists and listening habits on Apple Music.
Josh is the creator and co-host of You Hate Movies
The podcast where casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles argue about movies.
Teaching.
Josh has a Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies (MaBTS). He is the pastor of teaching and creative vision at Van City Church in Vancouver, Washington, which was planted by Bridgetown Church in Portland.