Brian Chan

Brian S. Chan is a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary in Media Arts & Worship, teaching creative writing, visual artmaking, and theologies of beauty, creativity, story, and film. Dr. Chan pastored in Hollywood/Los Angeles and taught courses at Biola University on a theology of beauty, art, and film. He is a workshop instructor and conference speaker in Hollywood on story, creativity, and beauty. He discipled entertainment industry professionals and innovated creative outreaches to the community. As an award-winning fine artist, Chan exhibited around the U.S.A., at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, and in Rome and is a board member of LELA International Artists. As an accomplished martial artist in kung fu, he is a certified Wing Chun master (sifu) and worked as a fight choreographer, stuntman, and trainer for actors.  As a writer, he is the author of “The Purple Curtain: Living Out Beauty in Faith & Culture from a Biblical Perspective, Not Easily Broken” (a novel), “Shadow” in “It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God,” and “Movies: Celluloid Sanctification” in “Ordinary Saints.” His other interests include the pop culture of comics, hiking in nature, traveling, and bonsai art. He is married to Ellen, and is the proud dad of his 11-year-old son. Chan’s mission is to create beauty that causes a love for God and exhibit the beauty of Christ in all of life.