Kenyon Adams As artists we have access to a key environment in the structure of a human being. Nigel Goodwin calls it "your belly". Martha Graham calls it "your center". Aretha Franklin calls it "my soul" and King David called it "my innermost being". This deep place exists between dreaming and waking where we are most ourselves, in which no ...
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Art and Suffering: Some Thoughts
on Referencing Without Resisting
A recent trip to with friends to the United Nations NY Headquarters, and a subsequent perusal of its main gallery's current photographic exhibition, DeterMined, prompted me to revisit some thoughts on art and suffering. With the biblical prompting to "look after" those who suffer (James 1:27), I am particularly provoked by works that deal with the subject. DeterMined ...
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Goods and God
Ei featured in an article by Jason Byassee in a June 2010 issue of Faith & Leadership.
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Faith-
Based
Diplomacy
The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy attempts to reduce violence by engaging the religious ideas behind the violence. While most American policymakers ignore religion, Douglas Johnston enters into madrassas and uses the teachings of their indigenous religion to generate respect for human rights, womens’ rights, and religious tolerance. This lecture was gi...
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Taking the Plunge
Maria Fee It is safe to say artists have experienced the complex distance between what is and what will be. This is usually typified in that stilled moment, the one prior to a performance or clean canvas, when every ounce of being gathers to commence action. It’s like convincing yourself to take the plunge into water, despite the uncertainties of the frigid deep, and the disc...
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Culture
as
Liturgy
Christians engaged in cultural renewal need to be cognizant of how cultural practices viscerally shape our desires. We are not disembodied brains who view the world with a detached intellectualism. We are shaped by the cultural spaces we inhabit and the cultural habits we practice. Unless we realize what subliminal messages these cultural liturgies are sending, we wi...
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