Seeing Salvation, Imaging the Invisible and Inspired to Follow

Seeing Salvation is a new weekly session on visual arts which I am leading each Friday at 2.30 pm as part of the HeartEdge Living God's Future Now programme. 

Seeing Salvation will examine a different initiative for connecting art and church. The series began by looking at art trails and continues on Friday 12 June by exploring art and contemplation. The first session in the series can be viewed here - https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge/videos/982654498816775/?v=982654498816775.

Also part of the growing library of Living God's Future Now videos are two interviews on the theme of Imaging the Invisible with the artists Sophie Hacker and Matthew Askey. These can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge/videos/298207657875091/?v=298207657875091 and https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge/videos/864429110744217/?v=864429110744217.

A further art related element to the Living God's Future Now programme is Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story. This programme of hour-long gatherings covers the Biblical story from Creation to Apocalypse. It uses fine art paintings that can be found in the collection of the National Gallery as a spring board for exploring two questions; What does it mean to follow Jesus today? How can I deepen my faith in God?  The course provides a way of deepening one’s Christian faith and exploring what it means to follow Jesus today.

What’s the programme?

• 7 June: Luke 1:26-38 / ‘The Annunciation’ Fra Filippo Lippi, about 1450-3, NG666
• 14 June: Luke 1:26-38 / ‘Mystic Nativity’, Sandro Botticelli, 1500, NG1034
• 21 June: Mark 1: 1-12 / ‘The Baptism of Christ’; predella panel, Giovanni di Paolo, 1454, NG5451
• 28 June: Luke 10:25-42 / ‘Christ in the House of Martha and Mary’, Diego Velásquez, probably 1618, NG1375
• 5 July: Mark 11: 4-12 & 15-19 / ‘Christ driving the Traders from the Temple’, El Greco, about.1600, NG1457
• 12 July: Mark 11: 4-12 & 15-19 / Christ washing the Feet of the Disciples, Jacopo Tintoretto, about.1575-80, NG1130
• 19 July: Matthew 26: 36-54 / ‘The Agony in the Garden’ by Giovanni Bellini, about.1465, NG726
• 26 July: Matthew 26:57-68 / ‘Christ before the High Priest’, Gerrit van Honthorst, about.1617, NG3679
• 2 August: Luke 23:26-38 / ‘Christ carrying the Cross’, Italian, Venetian, about. 1500, NG6655

For both Seeing Salvation and Inspired to Follow email me at jonathan.evens@smitf.org for a zoom invite.

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Michael McDermott - No Matter What.