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| Rare Christian Altar Cross Inlaid with Pearl Shell Solomon Islands, circa 1900. 62cm x 33cm x 19.5cm |
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Christian Altar Cross from the Solomon Islands
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Don Richardson To Speak Near Asheville, NC
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Author, former missionary, and contextualizer Don Richardson will be speaking at a 10:00am breakfast on September 22nd at Asheville Christian Academy, near Asheville, NC.
Richardson will share his personal experience as a missionary in Papua New Guinea. He will also share from his many years of missions development work including the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course.
He is the author of Eternity in Their Hearts and other books. All of Richardson's books focus on what he calls his "redemptive analogy" thesis: the idea that each culture has some story, ritual, or tradition that can be used to illustrate and apply the Christian gospel message.
Don and his wife Carol served for 15 years among the Sawi, a Stone Age tribe of cannibal-headhunters who valued treachery as an ideal. Don designed an alphabet suited to their language, authored 19 primers, taught the tribesmen to read in their native tongue and translated the New Testament into Sawi. More than half of the Sawi came to Christ!
To sign up for the breakfast, click here.
Richardson will share his personal experience as a missionary in Papua New Guinea. He will also share from his many years of missions development work including the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course.
He is the author of Eternity in Their Hearts and other books. All of Richardson's books focus on what he calls his "redemptive analogy" thesis: the idea that each culture has some story, ritual, or tradition that can be used to illustrate and apply the Christian gospel message.
Don and his wife Carol served for 15 years among the Sawi, a Stone Age tribe of cannibal-headhunters who valued treachery as an ideal. Don designed an alphabet suited to their language, authored 19 primers, taught the tribesmen to read in their native tongue and translated the New Testament into Sawi. More than half of the Sawi came to Christ!
To sign up for the breakfast, click here.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Indian Christian Art by Brojoe Joseph
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Below are some beautiful examples of Christian artwork by Indian artist Brojoe Joseph (perhaps his student work). You can find more of his paintings at his blog, Indian Christian Art, which features an Introduction section where he briefly explains inculturation, as well as Christianity in India and various styles of Indian painting.
Below are some beautiful examples of Christian artwork by Indian artist Brojoe Joseph (perhaps his student work). You can find more of his paintings at his blog, Indian Christian Art, which features an Introduction section where he briefly explains inculturation, as well as Christianity in India and various styles of Indian painting.
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| I Am the Light of the World |
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| Supper |
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Soichi Watanabe: Bamboo and the Holy Spirit
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Soichi Watanabe, a Japanese Christian painter, was born in 1949. In his work he seeks to answer the question, "What is the ideal form of art for Christian art in Japan in the present age?" He teaches art at a private art school that he founded in 1982 in the city where he lives, Koshigaya City, Saitama. His influences include many ancient forms of art along with varioius 20th century abstract artists.
Watanabe writes:
To read a devotional reflection on Watanabe's painting above, The Bamboo-Emptiness-Flexibility-and-The Holy Spirit, click here. Another devotional reflection on a different painting by him can be found here. For more examples of his work, click here. And here is a bio of the artist.
Below are two of my favorites:
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| Soichi Watanabe, The Bamboo-Emptiness-Flexibility-and-The Holy Spirit, 2008. Oil on canvas, 18" x 15". |
Soichi Watanabe, a Japanese Christian painter, was born in 1949. In his work he seeks to answer the question, "What is the ideal form of art for Christian art in Japan in the present age?" He teaches art at a private art school that he founded in 1982 in the city where he lives, Koshigaya City, Saitama. His influences include many ancient forms of art along with varioius 20th century abstract artists.
Watanabe writes:
"In 1972 I read in a book by Albert Schweitzer that when we encounter Jesus, we don't know who he is. When the disciples encountered Jesus by the seaside, they didn't know who he was. But they followed his call. Schweitzer heard God's call when he came across an appeal in a newspaper for doctors to be missionaries in Africa. After ten years of studying medicine he threw away the status of professor of theology and professional organist and followed Jesus. I was led to the Christian faith by some teachers, friends and books. Now I realize that these persons and these books were really Jesus by the seaside."
To read a devotional reflection on Watanabe's painting above, The Bamboo-Emptiness-Flexibility-and-The Holy Spirit, click here. Another devotional reflection on a different painting by him can be found here. For more examples of his work, click here. And here is a bio of the artist.
Below are two of my favorites:
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| Soichi Watanabe, We are One in Jesus Our Lord. |
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| Soichi Watanabe, Lotus - The Grace of God (Ephesians 1:7), 2008. Oil on canvas, 21" x 18". |
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Call for Entries: "Our Mob – God’s Story" Indigenous Christian Art Book
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It's been nearly a month since I've posted, mainly due to an online class that ended in early June and lots of stuff to catch up on since then. Anyway, please check out a flyer here about the upcoming Indigenous Australian Christian art book that I posted about in 2013. It's called Our Mob – God’s Story and is being produced by Bible Society Australia for publication in 2017. They're asking for submissions of "paintings which tell Bible stories or depict Christian symbols" by Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artists. The deadline for entries is July 31 2014.
All proceeds from the sale of the book will aid in providing Bible translations into indigenous Australian heart languages. The book's selection committee is made up entirely of Aboriginal Australians.
The hope for Our Mob – God’s Story is to show "the depth of spirituality among Indigenous Christians while showcasing their talent, and [to be] a creative means of engaging people with the gospel." Click here for more about the book and one of its selection committee members, Christobel Mattingley. For more about artist and selection committee member Max Conlon, click here.
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| Birth of Jesus by Max Conlon has been featured in the project's promotional materials. Conlon is also one of the book's selection committee members. |
It's been nearly a month since I've posted, mainly due to an online class that ended in early June and lots of stuff to catch up on since then. Anyway, please check out a flyer here about the upcoming Indigenous Australian Christian art book that I posted about in 2013. It's called Our Mob – God’s Story and is being produced by Bible Society Australia for publication in 2017. They're asking for submissions of "paintings which tell Bible stories or depict Christian symbols" by Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artists. The deadline for entries is July 31 2014.
All proceeds from the sale of the book will aid in providing Bible translations into indigenous Australian heart languages. The book's selection committee is made up entirely of Aboriginal Australians.
The hope for Our Mob – God’s Story is to show "the depth of spirituality among Indigenous Christians while showcasing their talent, and [to be] a creative means of engaging people with the gospel." Click here for more about the book and one of its selection committee members, Christobel Mattingley. For more about artist and selection committee member Max Conlon, click here.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Curious Christian: How to Find Alternative Christian Art
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Here's a great 2010 post from Matt Stone at Curious Christian called "How to find alternative Christian art." He provides some great tips for finding Christian art outside of the typical Sunday School / desktop wallpaper variety.
Matt has accumulated a great collection of all kinds of alternative Christian art at his blog, including lots of nonwestern/indigenous Christian art. Check it out!
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| Shanghai-based artist Yu Jiade's interpretation of Jesus as The Good Shepherd |
Here's a great 2010 post from Matt Stone at Curious Christian called "How to find alternative Christian art." He provides some great tips for finding Christian art outside of the typical Sunday School / desktop wallpaper variety.
Matt has accumulated a great collection of all kinds of alternative Christian art at his blog, including lots of nonwestern/indigenous Christian art. Check it out!
Friday, May 23, 2014
Kufic and Arabic Crosses
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Here is a cool looking cross via Curious Christian and the source of the photo, Pascal Zoghbi at 29Letters Blog. **world Business 1981*** reports that the wooden cross
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| Pascal Zoghbi, Photographer. |
Here is a cool looking cross via Curious Christian and the source of the photo, Pascal Zoghbi at 29Letters Blog. **world Business 1981*** reports that the wooden cross
is currently in the National Evangelical Church of Beirut, a Protestant church in Lebanon. The work was made in 1995 by the Lebanese Arab Christian artist Istfén. The writings are John 3:16; they say in Arabic "لأنه هكذا أحب الله العالم حتى بذل ابنه الوحيد لكي لا يهلك كل من يؤمن به بل تكون له الحياة الأبدية". Dimensions of the cross are 140cm X 100cm.Another Arabic calligraphy cross by artist EveritteBarbee can be seen here. It also contains John 3:16, once around the border and once in the cross itself. The centre circle reads "(he) loved".
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