The next whoever-shows-up evening of comparing notes and asking questions about the intersection of Life & Faith is Monday, July 7, at High Park Bar & Grill. Anyone is welcome to come and bring a friend, too. If you want to buy a beverage or dinner, arrive by 6:30PM to order. Our conversation runs 7:00-8:00 PM. Our two guidelines: what is said at Life & Faith stays at Life & Faith AND tip generously!
If you have a question about some way your day-to-day life is currently colliding with your faith, bring it and we’ll listen and share stories from our experiences. If no one brings a question, we’ll discuss the back up question provided by Jane Smith (convener and timekeeper).
If you would like to be on the reminder email list, contact Jane (contact info in Breeze or via office.cucc@gmail.com.)
July back up question
At a recent gathering of friends, someone asked the question “How do we, as humans, wrap our heads around the large numbers that describe the people suffering from current policy decisions? I am moved when my neighbor’s child dies, but when I hear that thousands of children are dying my brain shuts down.” A lively discussion ensued of how to help legislators be moved by the havoc of specific policy choices. One option – relying on the artists among us to help us imagine the unimaginable – caught my attention. After all, Jesus spun stories and did performance art to help us imagine and be transformed by God’s love.
When has an artist given you a handle on the incomprehensible? Whether poet, playwright, painter, composer, or dancer, what did an artist help you grasp that was too big for your left brain? Tell us about (or bring your phone and show us) an artwork that showed you a new perspective on one of the big abstract ideas – love, mercy, reconciliation, healing (your big abstract idea here). Has there been an artist whose work moved you to care more deeply and persistently about an injustice and why do you think that art achieved what all the facts had not? If you are an artist, have you ever tried to create a work to change the world by changing the perceivers’ relationship to reality?