By: Kenyon Adams All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. -Julian of Norwich What is the story underlying your journey as an artist? Are you on a path to glory? If I’m honest with myself, the pervasive narrative in which I locate my struggle to create and share art is often rooted in my own...
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Being
Displays
Itself
By: Maria Fee We are people of the Word but our beloved text points to gathered sounds that ultimately utter God’s actions. From burning bush to a son nailed onto a tree—we hear activity. The whole biblical narrative from creation, fall, alienation to reconciliation exhibits, as von Balthasar relates, God’s “genuine unfolding of himself in the worldly stuff ...
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Abstract:
Capturing the
Invisible God
Art Works by Len Cicio and Jess Hartley Exhibition Dates: May 4-June 4 Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6:30-9:00 Artist Talk 7:30 The art works of Jess Hartley and Len Cicio hold dynamic new worlds containing patterns foraged from real life. Life in the Abstract invites viewers on a visual journey through a landscape of color and form celebrating God’s design as it rev...
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By: Maria Fee What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:9-11 Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future...
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Waiting
By: Maria Fee I’m always amazed how Jesus’ parables convey a kingdom not estranged from this world, but very much bound to it. Despite the eschatological-end times dimension found in Matthew 25, the three stories within focus on the work accomplished in the present. In the first narrative we come across ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom in order to enter the ...
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the Network
We need to rethink the way we do church. Are we over-focusing on the city and neglecting the suburb’s impact? Do we neglect acting because we are too contemplative? Are we focused on reaching society’s outcasts the way Jesus did? Do we make an idol out of the large and neglect the power of the small? Do we ignore the ways that God works through pai...
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