Video: Joy Marie Clarkson on Popular Culture and Faith | Walk & Talk
Sep 25, 2025
Joy Marie Clarkson
An interview on how art, literature, and metaphor shape spiritual formation. Clarkson explores how engagement with popular and classical works deepens moral imagination, reorients our view of death, and cultivates attention, empathy, and hope.
In this Walk & Talk episode, Mo Hickman interviews Dr. Joy Marie Clarkson on the role of the arts in spiritual formation. Clarkson discusses how literature, pop culture, and metaphor shape our moral imagination, understanding of death, and capacity for hope, showing how art can console, re-enchant, and deepen Christian faith. Filmed on July 20th, 2023.
