Of the three things, truth, goodness, and beauty.

We will readily admit the truth and goodness are important,

but not so much for the concept of beauty.

Frankly, I think art bores a lot of us.

So the question we want to address today is,

how do we make art more relevant, more interesting

to the non-artist, particularly since so much art

has deep spiritual roots to it that we often miss. We're going to talk about these

questions today with our guest Russ Ramsey who's the author of a new book

Rembrandt is in the wind. I'm your host Scott Ray and I'm your co-host

Sean McDowell and this is Think biblically from Talbot

School of theology here at Biola University. Russ tell us about the title of

your book what is Rembrandt is in the wind there what's the backstory behind your title? Sure, so it has kind of a

double meaning. So the title is based on focused on Rembrandt's painting the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, which is Christ in his disciples in the boat in the storm when you know when they wake him and and he calms the the storm and Rembrandt painted himself into that painting and so he is

He's the character in that painting who is kind of in the middle of the disciples and he's looking at the viewer.

And so in that sense, in that painting, he is in the wind, he's in the storm.

But that phrase of something being in the wind is also a kind of a figure of speech that law enforcement uses for something that has been stolen and yet and is as yet unrecovered.

And that painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and has never been seen since. It was part of an art heist where 13 pieces were stolen, which collectively were worth over $500 million,

which was the largest.

Wow.

Yeah, it was the largest single property theft in American history.

And that particular painting was cut out of its frame

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