What do you think of when you think of prophetic art?

Does your mind instantly turn to the subversive power of beauty, energizing hope, alternate realities, toppling empire and the ministry of attentiveness? No? Well, perhaps you should spend an hour with Dr Mary McCampbell and the FITA team!

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Resources and References:

Books:

Imagining our Neighbours as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy - Mary McCampbell

The Prophetic Imagination - Walter Brugemann

The Church and The Fiction Writer - Flannery O’Connor (included in the book ‘Mystery and Manners)

Art and artists:

Lakwena - Nothing can separate us- https://www.vigogallery.com/exhibitions/58-lakwena-maciver-nothing-can-separate-us-covent-garden-london/overview/

Alvin Ailey Dance Company Victory Boyd (singer)

The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood

Life After God - Douglas Coupland

Magnolia (dir Paul Thomas Anderson)

Tree of Life (dir Terrence Mallick)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)

Bible References:

Matthew 23:13-39

Luke 1:46-56 (Mary’s Song)

Isaiah 55

Psalm 88