By: Maria Fee Writing on the original meaning and use of the word liturgy Nicholas Wolterstorff considers how “leitourgia never did mean action of the people. It meant action for the benefit of the people.” According to Wolterstorff the liturgy was actually considered “a type of public service.” (Wolterstorff, Major Themes in Reform Tradition, p. 274) Precis...
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The Second
Garden:
Art Works by
Maria Fee
On View At The W83 Ministry Center l 150 W 83 Street, July 2-August 2 Artist reception following July 16, InterArts Fellowship-Eternal Life How much does the reality of eternity factor into our present lives as artists? This exhibition by Maria Fee understands creating as an act of hope that celebrates eternal life as a continuous part of our present life. In the gospel ...
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In My Solitude
By: Kenyon Adams It is arguable that the most important time in which an artist may invest is not in networking meetings or collaborative workshops but rather in time spent alone. I am not necessarily speaking of studio time or the practice room either, but of true, unencumbered, undistracted solitude. I realize that I am addressing urban dwellers so let me explain what may be a...
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The Job of
Attentiveness
By: Maria Fee how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any—lifted from the no of all nothing—human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) –e e cummings from i thank You God Brian Fee, Untitled We recently attended a lecture featuring t...
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Glory Be
By: Kenyon Adams Spend any serious amount of time working in the arts and you’re bound to stumble upon one or two or more moments of glory: a triple turn on point, the high C at 10am finished with a buttery vibrato, the character writing himself into your novel as you sit in your pajamas at midnight surrounded by rough drafts. It’s all too easy to live in the lingering ...
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The Church,
The Artist and
The Handshake
By: Maria Fee “The door handle is the handshake of the building.” Juhani Pallasmaa Like a door knob, what does it signal when a church fosters an arts ministry? Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the shape and form of the arts ministry at Redeemer mainly because I’ve been fortunate to work in such a ministry, but also because I will move on to serve both the...
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