N.T. Wright asked how the biblical vision of Creation and New Creation can inspire us to imagine the future of theology’s interaction with the arts.

Jeremy Begbie led an ensemble of over forty musicians from America’s top orchestras.

What role do the arts play in the midst of life’s most difficult questions?

DITA Director Jeremy Begbie looked back over the last ten years and looked ahead to the shape of things to come.

Poet and author Christian Wiman and Professor Lauren Winner ask how does poetry participate in the work of theology and what does theology offer the work of making and receiving poetry.

How can Christians justify making and enjoying art in a world where people die of starvation and curable diseases? Is art a luxury Christians can no longer afford? Is it, in other words, waste?

Malcolm Guite and Judith Wolfe explore the works of Lewis and Tolkien and how both of them looked beyond the present order towards “a new heaven and a new earth.”

Artist Steve Prince took participants on a visual arts journey through history utilizing the cathartic nature of the New Orleans jazz Funerary tradition as a philosophy for grappling with issues circulating around faith, race, and social justice. This seminar featured a performance by choreographer and dancer, Professor Leah Glenn, of her original work “The Youngest of Nine.”

What happens when a painter, a poet, and a composer work together to try and discern the hidden image of God in all of us?

Jennifer Allen Craft addressed the ways that the arts draw us into more loving perception of and practice within the natural environment, along with revealing the vocation of placemaking that all humans share.

Micheal O’Siadhail introduced and read from his award-winning book of poetry, The Five Quintets, joined by Professor Richard Hays and Jeremy Begbie.