One of the great scholars and teachers of art history, specializing in
iconography—especially in her beloved Cyprus—Prof. Carr talks about the
meaning of “sacred” in sacred art, and about the Institute’s vision of
“exploring the intersection of human creativity and holiness.”

A highly celebrated visual artist, Makoto Fujimura also reflects deeply on
art, faith, and the need for cultural advocacy, through his books, most
recently (with N.T. Wright), Art and Faith: A Theology of Making. He talks
here on themes relating to his art, as well as another recent work, Silence
and Beauty—an extended reflection on the implications for art of Shusaku
Endo’s Silence.

Long-time professor of Liturgy and Music History, at Yale and Notre Dame, Margot talks with Peter about her work on Hildegard of Bingen—12th-century mystic, poet, musician, theologian—and how music, text, and cosmology can all come together in a harmonious whole.

Professor Junius Johnson, a musician and theologian, has written eloquently about a theology of beauty. He talks with Peter about how there’s no accounting for taste — or is there?

 Musician, philosopher, professor David Rothenberg is author of Nightingales in Berlin, also the subject of a feature-length documentary. His work recording birdsong, and interacting musically with it, leads to conversations on the sacred and luminous, in human and non-human life.