By: Maria Fee Indeed, there are times when artists lament how job pressures keep them from true creativity. We don’t always possess the luxury of pursuing interests, concerns, or longings. Instead we are given assignments, commissions, and roles to embody. We must pay bills, make deadlines. Therefore, reality spurs motivating factors besides predilection to rouse artistic act...
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Becoming
Fully
Human
All of us desire greatness because we were made great; we were created with the image of God. Yet sin has shrunken our souls and turned us into a fraction of the men and women that God would have us be. In this sense, Jesus was the first truly human being. He demonstrates what we would be like if we lived without the sin that cripples us. And Jesus calls us to ...
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To Dance
With God
By: Kenyon Adams It takes a lot of imagination to be a Christian. If I believe Christ, then I am one with him just as he is one with the Father and the Spirit, yet they are three persons in one. Still more, if I am in Christ I have been brought into the Trinity itself, that whirling pas de trois of the three-in-one which the early church fathers called perichoresis(d...
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A Guiding Light:
Thoughts from
an Arts Ministry
Coordinator
By: Maria Fee Kenyon Adams and I are privileged to gather annually with arts ministry leaders and pastors to artists at beautiful Laity Lodge in the hill country of Texas. These encounters are remarkable in that we’re able reflect on what God is doing in our ministry and observe how he is working in other artists around the country. In the short time span of four years we hav...
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InterArts
Fellowship
January: Body
Life
By: Kenyon Adams In our 2011-12 ministry year InterArts Fellowship (IAF) will explore four perspectives on LIFE: the reality of Christ’s Abundant life; the imminence and import of life in the Body; the mystery of life in the Spirit; and the hope of Eternal life. We are processing these themes through the lens of the arts by inviting artists and thinkers to contribute through ...
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Remember
By: Maria Fee Many view artists as misunderstood loners writing with wadded balls of paper around their feet or as painters wearing paint-smattered smocks, wild hair, frantically muttering to themselves. Nicholas Wolterstorff gives us a more inclusive view “Art—so often thought of as a way of getting out of the world—is man’s way of acting in the w...
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