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Fuller Theological Seminary Digital Commons @ Fuller FULLER Magazine Fuller Seminary Publications 2019 Fuller Magazine, Issue 013, 2019 - Worship and Art Fuller Theological Seminary Lauralee Farrer Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/fuller-magazine Part of the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Fuller Theological Seminary and Farrer, Lauralee, "Fuller Magazine, Issue 013, 2019 - Worship and Art" (2019). FULLER Magazine. 13. https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/fuller-magazine/13 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Fuller Seminary Publications at Digital Commons @ Fuller. It has been accepted for inclusion in FULLER Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Fuller. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ISSUE #13 | WORSHIP AND ART FULLER STORY Daniel Dama, pictured above, draws on his lifelong love for music and the arts to creatively share his faith with others across West Africa p.28 THEOLOGY This issue looks theologically at worship and art with a collection of articles curated by the Brehm Center’s Todd Johnson p.42 VOICE Guided steps lead readers through the Prayer of Examen and a diversity of voices reflect on discernment p.76 POSTER 1 POSTER + Fire Mercy, 2007, by Lance Kagey and Tom Llewellyn. Lance ministry, each year the campus hosts an artist to share his or her on a 1950s-era hand-crank printing press, they create a new Kagey was the featured Artist in Residence at Fuller Northwest work and to provide compelling art for our seminary community poster every month using wood and lead type with hand-carved for 2017–2018. “His work has enlivened the walls of our campus to engage. Our campus’s Artist in Residence Program was started images, and hang them on telephone poles and buildings in thought-provoking ways,” says Shannon Sigler, executive in 2014 by Martín Jiminez.” throughout Seattle with staples and wheat paste. Says Kagey, director of Brehm Cascadia, who has been instrumental in “We know people will see them there. We’re just as likely to developing the Artist in Residence program. “Because we believe The poster here, and others throughout the magazine, are part talk about good pizza as we are to talk about the good news. that discipleship of the eyes is important for those preparing for of a guerilla arts project, Beautiful Angle, created by Kagey and We’ve begun a dialogue with the city we love.” See more of their Llewellyn as a way of engaging the Seattle community. Working posters on pp. 4, 11, 74–75, and 98–99. ISSUE #13 | WORSHIP AND ART STORY | THEOLOGY | VOICE FULLER ISSUE #13 | WORSHIP AND ART SEMINARY LEADERSHIP Mark Labberton President Mari L. Clements Acting Provost Brent Assink Chief of Philanthropy Tod Bolsinger VP and Chief of Leadership Formation Theresa Edy-Kiene VP, Strategic Planning and Change Management Lauralee Farrer Chief Storyteller and VP of Communications + Let the Dreamer Awake and Sing Marcus Sun VP of Global Recruitment, Admissions, Marketing, and Retention Bill Clark Senior Advisor “The senses are our bridges to the One context at a time: Lance Kagey, world. Human skin is porous; the world Artist in Residence at Fuller Northwest, CREATIVE PRODUCTION flows through you,” says John O’Donohue is just such an artist, engaged in a Lauralee Farrer Editor in Chief in his book Anam Cara. If the theology unique dialogue with Seattle through Tamara Johnston Senior Producer section of this issue reveals anything, it the hand-printing and random hanging Becky Still Senior Editorial Manager Michael Wright Editor is how the expression of worship and art of original works around town. His art, Aaron Dorsey Communications Inclusion Liaison is embodied, and that this embodiment found opposite this page and throughout Robert Bethke Director of International Communications affects both what we absorb as the world the magazine, is thought-provoking and Kathryn Sangsland Project Manager flows through and what we release back vital, but it is the artist himself who is Nate Harrison Senior Photographer and Video Storyteller into it. If astronomer Carl Sagan and in dialogue with the city, crossing the Katy Cook Lead Designer songwriter Joni Mitchell are correct—“we distance between thought and stranger. Denise Louise Klitsie Principal Illustrator are stardust, we are billion-year-old “The purpose of theology—the Randall Cole Design and Production Consultant Lucy Kim, Salomon Kim, Joanne Yoon, Sergio Zapata carbon”—not only the world flows in and purpose of any thinking about God,” says Translation Services out like breath, but an eternal cosmos, Wiman, “[is] to make the . aspects Elijah Davidson Web and Digital Media Manager too. If the imagination can stretch that of the divine that will not be reduced Susan Carlson Wood Proofreader far, is it so great a leap that we, first to human meanings more irreducible enlivened by the breath of God in Eden, and more terrible, and thus ultimately CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS still exhale that breath back into the more wonderful.” This is why, he goes Giovanny Panginda world? Might our service be the simple on to claim, “art is so often better at COVER act of breathing out the presence of God theology than theology is.” It most Daniel Dama, photographed by Nate Harrison in a thousand places? certainly is true that art tells a tale of This territory is not new to artists God that theology cannot (to which THEOLOGY SECTION ADVISORY BOARD or worship leaders—or those called most theologians will attest), and vice Keon-Sang An PhD, Associate Professor of Bible and Mission to intercessory prayer. I have referred versa. But this seminary is peopled D. Scott Cormode PhD, Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership Development before to the artist as intercessor, with those who embody both theology Kurt Fredrickson PhD, Associate Dean for the DMin and bridging the gap between suffering and art at once. Daniel Dama, whose Continuing Education and hope (Rom 5:3–5) with one foot beautiful visage graces the covers of this Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen DrTheol, Professor of Systematic planted firmly in each. Why? No one in magazine and whose story is told within, + 1000 Flowers, Theology their right mind would remain in such is evidence of this dual embodiment 2006, Lance Mark Labberton PhD, President Kagey and Tom Kara E. Powell PhD, Executive Director of Fuller Youth Institute and tension by choice, yet some artists do so of God’s presence as theologian and Llewellyn. “The Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry to become a bridge themselves, so that musician, prompting the question, why Tacoma Dome Brad D. Strawn PhD, Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of the others might cross over them. “There choose between worship, theology, and Integration of Psychology and Theology Flower appears is a kind of consciousness,” confirms art when we might embody all? here,” says Kagey. Marianne Meye Thompson PhD, Dean of School of Theology and George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament Christian Wiman in his book My Bright “This poster + LAURALEE was displayed at Jude Tiersma Watson PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Misson Abyss, “[that] involves allowing the world FARRER is chief Tacoma’s annual Miyoung Yoon Hammer PhD, Associate Professor of Marriage to stream through you rather than you storyteller and Art Festival as an and Family Therapy always reaching out to take hold of it. vice president of installation called, . People, occasionally, can be such aptly enough, communications. works, creation streaming through them.” 1000 Frickin’ How might we be such people in a world Flowers.” See Issue #13 2019 more of Kagey’s of catastrophic change and rage fatigue? FULLER magazine (ISSN 2377-5432) is published for the global community work on pp. 2–3, + of Fuller Theological Seminary. The editorial content of FULLER magazine reflects 11, 74–75, and the opinions of the various authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily 98–99. representing the views of Fuller Theological Seminary. We are a free publication of Fuller Theological Seminary. If you would like to make a contribution or if you have inquiries, please email [email protected]. © 2019 by Fuller Theological Seminary. Produced in limited quantities. 5 FULLER MAGAZINE | FULLER.EDU/STUDIO ISSUE #13 | WORSHIP AND ART 96 34 12 51 92 22 40 16 98 28 45 76 STORY THEOLOGY VOICE A Cloud of Witnesses 12 A Hopeful Picture 22 An Artistic Sensibility 34 Introduction 42 Psalms: A Biblical Model Voices on the Prayer of A cross-country trip reveals both the challenges As she watches teen moms reflect on Longtime professor Al Dueck merges Todd E. Johnson, Guest Editor of Art 60 Examen 76 of racial stereotypes and the blessings of nontraditional images of Mary, Joyce del his interest in pottery with theology and W. David O. Taylor hospitality Rosario finds implications for ministry psychology as a way to connect head and Voices on Discernment 88 heart Much Ado about Kneeling 44 Todd E. Johnson Hip Hop Hermeneutic 64 Redemptive Entrepreneur 16 A Song in His Heart 28 Dwight Radcliff DEPARTMENTS Drawing on his lifelong love for music, Daniel Combining determination with a creative spirit, The Art of Peacebuilding in a Meghan Easley helps new ventures do “extreme Dama uses the arts to share his faith with Divided World 49 Exploring the Role of From Mark Labberton, President 8 good” in their work others across West Africa Roberta R. King Embodiment in Worship 68 Alexis D. Abernethy Recent Faculty Books and Publications 94 The Catastrophic Poetry of the Cross 54 Culture Care: An Assumption Benediction 96 Kutter Callaway of Abundance 72 Makoto Fujimura About Fuller 97 6 7 FULLER MAGAZINE | FULLER.EDU/STUDIO ISSUE #13 | WORSHIP AND ART Paying Attention Prestando atención 관심을 갖다 From Mark Labberton, President When I was a student at Fuller many years Living as a disciple of Jesus requires paying bilities affect our capacities.