How can creative people honestly pursue their crafts in an age of Artificial Intelligence? What key components fuel creativity for those who make art, film, novels, poetry, graphic art, or music?

Our guest is Craig Detweiler, author, filmmaker, educator, cultural commentator, and Variety Magazine’s Mentor of the Year recipient.

Over the years, Craig has taught and mentored thousands of students at Pepperdine, Biola, Fuller Seminary, and Grand Canyon University. He has encouraged these aspiring artists to launch creative projects with intention, awareness, and confidence. His students have founded festivals, started companies and schools, written acclaimed graphic novels, and directed movies for Marvel.

Now, at a time when generative AI can aggregate text and images in seconds, he shows why “honest creativity” is one of the core tenets that separates humans from machines. For Craig Detweiler, creating honestly is a way of honoring the gift of life. Humans are called to honestly create magnificent things because it is what humans, made in the image of God, do.

Craig’s latest book is Honest Creativity: The Foundations of Boundless, Good, and Inspired Innovation (Morehouse Publishing, 2024).

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Dr. Craig Detweiler

Craig Detweiler (MFA, Univ of Southern California, M.Div. and Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is the President & CEO of Wedgwood Circle, a philanthropical investment collective funding creative projects of meaning. He is the Dean of the College of Arts & Media at Grand Canyon University. Craig is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Check out an episode of the Reintegrate Podcast from 2020, in which Craig Detweiler discusses how to reintegrate our faith with watching movies.

Check out Craig’s other books:

Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age (Brazos, 2018).

iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives (Brazos, 2013).

Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games with God Paperback (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).

Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century (Cultural Exegesis, Baker Academic, 2008).

A Purple State of Mind: Finding Middle Ground in a Divided Culture (Harvest House, 2008).

A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture (Engaging Culture, Baker Academic, 2003).

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