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Art Illuminates: A Lenten Reflection for the Artist

Art Illuminates:
A Lenten Reflection
for the Artist

Kenyon Adams  PROLOGUE We must never imagine that art is wholly subject to the fallen mind. On the contrary, the fallen mind must be lifted up in taking in the art. Art can offer us a taste of the kingdom come and illumine our hearts and minds in view of the renewing work of Christ. ACT I Because of the gospel, the artist can delve into the deepest grime of fallen man&rsq...

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In The Livingroom: A Seven-Week Faith & Arts Study

In The Livingroom:
A Seven-Week
Faith & Arts Study

Maria Fee Since its inception seven years ago, InterArts Fellowship (IAF) has gathered artists of all disciplines to showcase their work and talk about their faith. While IAF is a dynamic and well-attended quarterly meeting, our artists also felt the need for a more intimate setting to share their faith journeys. This fall we piloted a seven-week art and faith study entitled, In th...

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Up, Light/Light, Up

Up, Light/Light, Up

The idea of “Christian Art” is a subject that has been continually shrouded with a sense of discord. Few people can reach an agreement on how to define this term, or agree on what type of art this term should define. Yet, for those of us who consider ourselves Christians and who make art (or who participate in the art world in some capacity) it is a phrase we are forced to...

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Art Matters for God's Sake

Art Matters
for
God's Sake

Art is of enormous consequence.  It can transform our world.  Art has the potential to awaken our imagination and show us worlds that we had not previously dreamed. Art can give us hope when the world seems hopeless.  Art provides us with stories through which we make sense of the world.  Yet, despite these artistic gifts, artists often go unnoticed by our society....

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Repairing the Garden

Repairing
the Garden

Ei and CFW are featured in this article by Bob Wells featured in Faith and Leadership.

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Why We Need Artists

Why We
Need Artists
:
Excerpted from
“It Was Good”

By: Timothy Keller Why does the Church and why does Christianity need artists? While we have artists because they have the ability to see the greater reality, we need artists because… we can’t understand truth without art. You see, reason tells me about the truth, but I really cannot grasp what it means; I can’t understand it without art. Jonathan Edwards, t...

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