By Kenyon Adams Remember the days when a conversation at Starbuck’s about the deeper matters of life and longing would inevitably end with one party resolutely declaring, “Well, that’s true for you but it’s not true for me”? It seems like only yesterday that relativism reigned as the catch-all response to issues of ultimate concern from philo...
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Looking for Transformation: Inner & Outer Sight
2011 Annual Juried Exhibition October 07, 2011 - January 3, 2012 Redeemer Office, 1359 Broadway, Suite 400 "Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them." Acts 28:27b Through the work of the Spirit art assists in opening our eyes and ears to bring about both inner and outer transformation.
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Graceful
Citizenship
The era of the religious right is waning and the younger Christian generation is searching for a new model of political engagement. Yet, no one is quite sure what that model should be. Michael Gerson and Gideon Strauss wrestle with precisely this issue. Gerson, a senior official in the George W. Bush administration surveys the successes and failures of the religious right ...
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Our Story
By Maria Fee Artists in the Church need to develop a theory of art informed by the bible in order to return to the world a profound story. With society’s loss of the meta-narrative contemporary lives feel detached, humanity’s significance seems to have diminished, we have forgotten what it means to be human. Despite how the power of God’s story has shaped Christia...
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There, But For the Grace of God
there but for the Grace of God lay I still paralyzed but not still devoid of peace bereft of hope leper perishing languishing, lost, in a bed, in, deep in oppressive, depressive despair, slave to myself, blind to all else... only by His command was I able to rise! And come forth broken one foot in front of the other unsure afraid desperately alone unloved unwanted, and ...
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The Dialogue Continues
Kenyon Adams A friend of mine tells a story of a woman he loved and lost to a terminal illness. He recalls how he strove to make her last days so full of life. She dreamed of going to Italy, and because it was clear she would never make it there he transformed her hospital bedroom into a living Italian montage complete with a gondola! He painted the walls with scenes from Venice, R...
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