Have you attended an arts event or venue in the last six months? (live music concert, museum or gallery, play, dance performance, independent film, etc.) Do you have a favorite art form that you particularly enjoy experiencing and learning about? Do you occasionally attend different types of arts events/venues, besides your favorite? Do you have an artist or arts organization...
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Walking on
Water: Linking
Faith and Art
By: Maria Fee “But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.” In his poem Seven Stanzas at Easter John Updike contends that our resurrected God is not some ethereal being. Jesus, who is both man and God, bridges earth and heaven. Updike insists that if Jesus’ “cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecules/ reknit, the amino acids...
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The Ripple
Effect of Love
and Entrepren-
eurship
Alfa Demmellash is the cofounder of Rising Tide Capital and explains in this clip how the radical love God has shown us is what he expects us to show others. Using this principle as a guide, Demmellash discusses ways Rising Tide Capital has helped entrepreneurs because the organization believes that people are infinitely valuable. This is a clip from Demmellash’s talk gi...
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Unveiled
Faces: Artists
Reflecting
God's Glory
By: Maria Fee “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is Spirit.” – 2 Corinthians 3: 17,18 Redeemer’s fall art exhibition, entitled Unve...
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Machiavelli
and Finance
By: Somi Lee The world of finance resonates with the Machiavellian view in that the end – profit for the company – justifies the means – the way people conduct business. While other values such as philanthropy, community enrichment, work-life balance, and being ethical are important, ultimately these values come second to profit-making for the company. ...
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Why Christian
Character
Matters
What does eschatology have to do with ethics? What does the new heaven and the new earth have to do with the world in which we live now? Ultimately, it means that love is not our duty but our destiny. Through God's grace in our lives, Christians strive to develop habits and character which build them up into the people that God originally created them to be. Christians are not cal...
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