What do you think of when you hear the word “passion”? The Entrepreneurship Initiative chose Passion as its theme for the 2011 Ei Forum partly because of the many connotations “Passion” carries. Our goal for the Forum, which was held on April 8-9, was to help our audience of 265 people—which included entrepreneurs, investors, pastors, and arts and educ...
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Foundations of a Worldview: An Architect's Perspective
By Joanna Stephens Architects have an intense passion for what they do. Although the design profession includes aspects of various worldviews, this common passion stems largely from one of architects' most deep-seated motivations: a Platonic search for truth and the quest to make this truth known to the world through what we build. In the indust...
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How Much is Too Much?
Wrestling with the Place
of Culture in Devotional
"I was born in a house with the television always on," sing David Byrne and the Talking Heads in their song Love for Sale. What could be truer than that for most of us? Yet even with the television blaring (and sometimes because of the television blaring), we manage to hear God's voice in the culture...because He's everywhere, and not only in a monastery. We know ...
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Through a Glass Darkly
1 Corinthians 13:12 my hand groping for my glasses when I wake in the night, my eyes reaching through the dark that is close around me, closing my reflection as I stand barefoot before the mirror my bedroom empty of light and I dissolving in my nightgown nothing but a shadow blooming then out of the gloom a glimmer: my dark eyes peering trying to find the edges of...
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The Artist As Cultivator
Maria Fee In Andy Crouch’s, Culture Making, Christians are encourage to take up the posture of cultivation. Kenyon and I have proceeded to use the term cultivator as one of the various roles of the Christian artist. Tonight at InterArts Fellowship we venture one step further and will highlight the relationship between prayer and cultivation in the life of the artist. Here ...
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Martha: A Diet of Tears
Maria Fee As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. Luke 10:38 Hallowed preparation call; how honed steel breaks through onion, whose tattered outside coat crackles like pitch in fire. Now fragrant incense rises to bring lacrimatory plea long held composed. Come, Duty, bid thes...
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