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- 25: Beholding the Faith 8 - Catacombs, Cathedrals, and Worship in a Pandemic
We explore the journey of Christian worship and art that takes us from catacombs to cathedrals, and why a strange setting that confronts our senses with both life and death might be just right for our exploration of God. Then we use all this to help you try to discern which are genuine expression of Christian worship and action against the backdrop of our current pandemic.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
55 min - 24: Beholding the Faith 7 - Liturgy, Community, and Creativity (w/ Janelle Hiroshige)
We look at how liturgies that arrange ordinary objects and our everyday habits to shape our hearts and minds are not just things that happen in some worship services but also in our entertainment and work commutes and, well, everything really. Then we look at how the structure of good liturgy opens up surprising creativity and connections with others.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
56 min - 23: Beholding the Faith 6 - Black Art, Writing, Racism, and God Pt. 2 (w/ M'Lynn Martin)
We continue our conversation on black art and theology with M'Lynn Martin to explore how the creative process can help us face and move through the painful parts of our lives, giving us an instrument for beauty and hope beyond the world's death.
If you'd like to read more of M'Lynn's work, you can find her writings on Instagram (link in her bio) under the handle @mlynn.martin.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
54 min - 22: Beholding the Faith 5 - Black Art, Writing, Racism, and God (w/ M'Lynn Martin)
We explore some specific artistically formed words, to see how they can not just express grand thoughts about God and God's beautiful desire to reconcile the world, but help us better enter the concrete realities of some of the most difficult and painful issues of our day, to really experience miraculous reconciliations.
Our featured guest for this episode and the next is M'Lynn Martin. Find her writings on Instagram (link in her bio) under the handle @mlynn.martin.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
53 min - 21: Beholding the Faith 4 - Resurrection and Aesthetic Experience
Our senses, feelings, and initial perceptions are notorious for misleading us. So we look at the process of refining our senses and feelings so they can get involved in helping us explore reality, perhaps even realties beyond death.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
58 min - 20: Beholding the Faith 3 - Performance Art & Expectations, the Transfiguration & Crucifixion (w/ Dr. Charissa Noble)
Art intentionally arranges things and builds on our expectations to help us see, hear, feel, or otherwise notice something.
This time we look at instances where Jesus artistically arranged things, and explore why arrangements that help us seek and know God should not always be pleasing to us.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
59 min - 19: Beholding the Faith 2 - Effort, Art, Practice and Meaning - w/ Dr. Charissa Noble
We explore the sweat, frustration and repetition it takes to get good at something like music or baseball or sketching or worship, and ask what makes this all worthwhile.
Again, with Dr. Charissa Noble
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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
45 min - 18: Beholding the Faith 1 - Art, the Tabernacle, and the Infinite (w/ Dr. Charissa Noble)
In this series we explore the question, "how can we humans, finite creatures that we are, know anything about the Infinite?"
To do this we look at how people captivated by a vision of God have crafted everyday materials we can grasp like cloth or stone or metal and arranged very basic things like sound and color and shape, to help us seek and know God.
This time we look at the difference between art and craft as an object we consume, and art as an initiation into an exploration of deeper realities, and the Old Testament Tabernacle as an example of a work of art that helps us explore God.
www.shemasd.org
Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
49 min - 17: Habits, True Beliefs, and Resolutions
We trace the connection between the things you do often, and without much thought, to the deepest and most influential beliefs you hold. This brings clarity on those moments it feels like you may not actually believe what you want to believe, or think you believe. Then we take you through an exercise and meditation to help you sketch and enact a new habit that would lead to better beliefs.
Original Score by Julius Obregon, Jr.
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22 min - 16: Apostles' Creed 9 - Forgiveness and Resurrection
We explore why the kind of forgiveness we really need to heal the kinds of things that really need healing, might only be possible if the dead are raised.
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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr.
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Each week we talk culture, music, ideas, events, and stories to explore how and why the Gospel of Jesus Christ means something for everything. Yes, everything.