Art & Faith Conversations

Oct 02 2024 100 ep. 33 mins 25
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How does creativity intersect with our spirituality? Conversations with artists to explore our humanity and spiritual identity through the integration of art and faith.

  Arts  Religion & Spirituality
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Season 9 EP 7: A Spiritual Practice of Peace

Oct 02 2024 10 mins  
Host, Libby Johnson, will guide you through a spiriutal practice that focuses on peace. Through prayer, lectio divina style reading, and question prompts to ponder, this episode will lead you in a devotional style practice of gathering your scattered thoughts and calming your anxious heart. This is an episode you can return to again and again as a way to start your day by centerin

Season 9 EP6: The Artist & Burnout w/ Andrew Nemr

Apr 19 2024 47 mins  
Andrew Nemr is an international tap artist, TED Fellow, speaker, mentor, and writer. Andrew started tapping at the age of 3 being mentored by Gregory Hines starting at a very young age. He’s a solo artist in dance, visual art and music but also travels the world as a speaker, mentor, and coach in a variety of settings and has had his life story featured in an independent film by

Season 9 EP 5: Embodied Preaching w/ Jaclyn Williams

Mar 01 2024 50 mins  
Jaclyn Williams is a preacher, chaplain, educator, and performing artist. She is an assistant professor of the practice of preaching and chaplaincy at Fuller Seminary. She joins the podcast to talk about embodied preaching and the unique style she has of integrating her performing art skills to enhance her pedagogical practice with students. As well as her MDiv and PhD in theologic

Season 9 EP 4: Embodying the Pace of God w/ Mark Buchanan

Jan 25 2024 48 mins  
Mark Buchanan is a professor of pastoral theology at Ambrose University. He has authored several book on spiritual formation and rhythms of the soul. He joins the podcast to talk about his book, God Walk-Moving at the Speed of Our Soul. We discuss the spiritual practice of physically walking and how formative it is for our faith when we slow down enough to keep pace with a 3mph God

Season 9 EP 3: The Embodied Language of Dance w/ Julianna Rubio Slager

Jan 11 2024 38 mins  
Julianna Rubio Slager is the artistic director and co-founder of Ballet 5:8 dance company out of Chicago. She returns for the second time to the podcast to talk about the powerful language of the body through dance and how it can speak in ways words cannot. We discuss misconcenptions about the body and dance among church culture and the importance of making peace with our bodies in

Season 9 EP 2: Embodiment & the Brain w/ Dr. Curt Thompson

Dec 15 2023 52 mins  
Dr. Curt Thompson is a leading psychiatrist in the field of interpersonal neurobiology and spiritual formation. We discuss why art and artists are invaluable to understanding what it means to be human and to live a purposeful life. Curt specializes in helping others seek and discover the intrinsic desire we all have to feel known, loved, and connected and shares how beauty and cre

Season 9 EP 1: Embodied Art & Worship w/ David Taylor

Nov 17 2023 54 mins  
David Taylor returns to the podcast to talk about his latest book, A Body of Praise-Understanding the Role of our Physical Bodies in Worship. Click to Order A Body of Praise We discuss our five senses as the way we experience God's closeness and grace and how artists give us language and portals to engage our senses more fully in worship and life. David aruges that the body is not

Season 8 EP 9: Art Led by Listening w/ Jane Boutwell

Jun 21 2023 40 mins  
Jane Boutwell is an artist who describes herself as having an inquisitive mind, a heart connected to nature and a soul yearning towards God…a child of dirt and dance…a beauty bringing blessing writer… a poetic painter and potter. Her creative work includes tactile, intuitive, and deeply-in-touch-with-nature ways of being in the world. She finds her passion in a variety of cre

Season 8 EP 8: Sacred Strides w/ Justin McRoberts

Jun 11 2023 43 mins  
Justin McRoberts returns to the podcast to talk about his newest book, Sacred Strides: The Journey to Belovedness in Work and Rest. In this episode we discuss the myth of finding balancing but rather discovering the tensions and rhythms in different seasons of life. We also talk about the significance of practicing a day of Sabbath and the pitfalls of focuisng on utitliy in our cre

Lent Meditation Series Week 5

Mar 28 2023 6 mins  
Week 5 of a series of audio meditations to guide you through the season of Lent. Each Lent episode is an exceprt of a more in-depth writtten series that includes movement prayer and visual art as well as poetry and scripture. Visit Lent Week 5 to go deeper Music provided by Dear Gravity Journal Prompt Questions: What are some ways you can slow down and be cared for in this season?