The Mission Statement.

The Mission of the Integration of Faith and Culture Programs is to further the educational, spiritual development of the Taylor University community through creating programs that help develop a Christian aesthetic and deepen understanding and discernment of the arts, popular arts, and culture in light of faith. Integration of Faith and Culture Programs will challenge students to invest in ecumenical community while exploring and preserving their role in culture as redemptive image-bearers of Christ. As a result, students are encouraged to pursue Philippians 4:8 and examine the mystery and fullness of faith, grace, creation, beauty, and culture through film, art, music, issues, and ideas. IFC also serves as a role model for an "interpretive community" as it internally develops all of its programs. As an interpretive community made up of various students from different backgrounds, the students of IFC should sharpen one another (Proverbs 27:17) as they engage, discuss, and debate issues of popular art and faith as a cabinet.