Beautifully Strange Convictions
Beautifully Strange Convictions
FALL MMXXVI
BEAUTIFULLY STRANGE CONVICTIONS
The orthodox Christian faith looks strange from the outside — and that strangeness is the point.
When Christians hold tightly to core convictions, beauty and fruit
and astonishing love spring forth, often through equally strange acts of sacrifice.
This fall, we orient ourselves
by following the well-worn path of the saints,
asking what it means to walk as they walked.
Feasting on The Great Stories
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Believe to see Podcast
Believe to See delves into the relationship between faith, art, and storytelling, seeking light and laughter in the quest for a Christian imagination. Join hosts Matthew Mellema, Mandy Houk, and Christina Brown for glimpses into the life of the Anselm Society arts guild…and leave with a taste of a community shaped by the great stories.
How To See Like A Saint
series highlight
A five-part class by Brian Brown.
Whenever we come across stories of the saints, it seems like they see something differently than we do. Something that enables them to not just keep it together, not just behave themselves, but transform everything around them. What is it? And can we learn to see it too?
Podcast Episodes, Articles, and More
following the well-worn path of the saints
We Christians have sometimes been too quick to join our neighbors in writing things off that “don’t last.” But autumn is an opportunity to do something different: to recognize that our timeless God works in things that appear to be fleeting, and to consecrate the moment for eternity. We do this when we cook for a feast. When we sing, laugh, and make art in the face of darkness. When we give thanks for the saints of the past. When we find new ways to repurpose old things. And when we learn, bit by bit, to live each moment like it is part of a larger story, like all the saints did.
Peruse our curated content below on such autumnal topics!
Anselm Voices
Lanier Ivester’s Rivendell and Christian Hospitality
In a world of haste and homesickness, we’re all longing for Rivendell: a place of love and belonging, healing and beauty. This Imagination Redeemed 2018 Conference session explores the creative potential of domestic spaces to image our ‘at-homeness’ in God, and cast a vision for hospitality as both art form and act of worship.
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Diana Glyer’s Intellectual Hospitality for the Arts
What do those ideas have in common? They are hard, and we try to do them alone. But to really thrive, we need people in our lives who encourage us and challenge us, who keep the faith when we lose heart, and who provide the skills, resources, and perspectives we lack. But there’s an art to cultivating that kind of relationship—and it’s one we can learn. Watch Now→
Amber Salladin’s How Music is Re-Enchanting the Church
We've all experienced the power of music to move our emotions, and we know that it can play a big part in returning our wayward hearts over and over to the Lord. In this session at the Imagination Redeemed Conference 2020, Amber unpacks the mysteries of how music makes us feel things, how we are re-enchanted by it, and then follows that up with a wealth of practical suggestions for how we can use music in thoughtful ways to move the church forward towards glorifying God and enjoying Him forever.
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Rev. Dr. Hans Boersma’s Re-enchanting the Universe
A lecture delivered at Imagination Redeemed Conference 2019, Hans Boersma explores how music mediates grace and shapes the soul, re-tuning us to see the already-enchanted universe more clearly. With Christ as the true Musician—the Logos who orders creation and sings through Scripture — Boersma encourages us to sing along with Christ in reading and singing the Psalms
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