Maria Fee Recently viewing Terrence Malick’s visually stunning, Tree of Life, I revisited another visual treasure, Julian Schnabel’s poetic film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The Diving Bell and the Butterflybeautifully conveys the human capacity to create and generate art despite tragic and confining perimeters through the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, jet setter...
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Four E's of
Faith and Work
Kenny Jhang A broad movement to integrate social, economic, and religious factors has gained momentum in our culture according to David Miller, founding Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative, Associate Research Scholar in CSR and Lecturer in the Department of Religion. In his book, God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement, ...
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John 20: The Second Gardener
Maria Fee In the beginning God affirmed matter and set into the cosmos a generative force that allows for both, beauty and sustainability. Yet the fall obscures our perception of his world; lost is our view of the garden. Our need for glory somehow trumps the Triune God’s. Thus, tarnished by brokenness, we no longer see God or the world rightly. This is one reason why a...
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Thomas
Martin
This week we welcome and enjoy Thomas Martin's latest work. www.thomasmartinstudio.com "For me, drawing is a way to integrate my whole person, the unconscious, the felt and the rational, the desire to organize and the impulse to improvise. It functions as an intermediary momentbetween the idea and the reality, between the emotion and the response (T.S.Eliot,&...
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Quarternity
Maria Fee Anselm Kiefer’s painting Quaternity depicts a bare wooden interior. The room is the artist’s studio containing three small, seemingly contained fires and a serpent. The three flames are labeled Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; the serpent is branded, Satan. I will not presume to read into Kiefer’s symbolism, but for the sake of this entry I will utilize Quar...
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Gospel & Culture
Lectures Year at a Glance
Amilee Watkins Last year the Center for Faith & Work initiated a monthly lecture series to engage the broader Redeemer congregation, particularly those who are not available to regularly participate in monthly vocation groups. The goal of the series was to help process what it looks like for Christians to participate in culture. What is the link between the gospel and cultur...
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