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Come and See |
| Issue #91 - Drama on a Budget |
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Dean R. Heetderks
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Just in time for the holidays, here’s an easy one for all you sewers and weavers and other overworked “banner people.” These simple but dramatic visuals are made of lowly colored bu...
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Feature |
| Issue #90 - The Wild Olive Tree |
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Steve Caton
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Every time our worship planning team faces another major season of the church year, the same nagging worry creeps into the back of our minds: Can we come up with any new creative ideas for this seaso...
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Church Profile |
| Issue #90 - Celebrating the Arts |
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Nathan Bierma
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For a mid-sized city with a thriving downtown arts scene, the annual Celebration of the Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, may seem like just one more art show on a busy cultural calendar. But art lovers...
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Editorial |
| Issue #89 - Not a Pretty Picture . . . Or Is It? |
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Joyce Borger
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If you’re like me, you find the cover of this issue of RW thought-provoking. Chris Stoffel Overvoorde’s That Glorious Form stops us short and makes us think. The Christ child in a crown o...
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Advent |
| Issue #89 - Kids Creating Art for Worship |
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Trish Turkstra
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” Christ Community Church takes this quote by cultural critic Neil Postman seriously. According to the church’s vision st...
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Come and See |
| Issue #89 - All Stars |
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Dean R. Heetderks
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Involvement in the arts is an important way for kids of all ages to find their place in congregational life. Church is a place where someone can recognize and respect children’s gifts and then w...
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Come and See |
| Issue #88 - I Give Up! |
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Dean R. Heetderks
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If you’ve been reading this column for any length of time, you’ve already heard me whine about my struggle to reconcile the fleeting nature of projected visuals with the more tangible and...
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Come and See |
| Issue #84 - Dyed and Draped to Heaven |
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Dean R. Heetderks
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For some time, I’ve thought about how to portray music visually. How does one art form honor another? What could be done in our spaces to reflect the prominent position that music has in our wor...
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Pentecost |
| Issue #83 - Pentecost Flame |
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Cheryl Thomson
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Our liturgical arts committee aims to include color, music, motion, and symbolism in worship. For Pentecost, we wanted to symbolize how the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples with wind and flame.Ther...
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Church Profile |
| Issue #83 - Grace in the Artistic Heart of a City |
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Sarah Potter Johnson
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The hundred-year-old church building where Grace Central Presbyterian (PCA) Church worships sits in the heart of the Short North arts district of Columbus, Ohio. It’s a neighborhood known for it...
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