How might art help us to engage with and think about our technological age? In this seminar encounter, poet-priest Malcolm Guite, medical physicist and professor of Radiology Ehsan Samei, and womanist scholar Wylin Wilson will discuss the ethical and theological implications of technology in contemporary life, and how the arts might inform or transform our relationship to a rapidly changing world.

In this seminar encounter, feminist scholar Natalie Carnes, seminary professor Jane Williams, and theology and the arts cultural critic Wesley Vander Lugt will discuss how art is key to reshaping our culture’s imagination for abundance and how that impacts our perspective on suffering, poverty, and pain.

What are the possibilities and perils of using art to engage with and enact social change? In this encounter, theology and the arts scholar Christina Carnes Ananias, art evangelist Steve Prince, and visual artist and academic Jonathan A. Anderson will discuss how making and viewing visual art helps us to see the needs of our cultures, societies, and neighbors.

How might art shape our hearts for worship and our imagination for communal flourishing, both locally and globally? In this encounter, liturgical scholar W. David O. Taylor, Taiwanese theatre director and actor Vincent Wei-Cheng Lin, and Black church studies and sacred music scholar James Abbington will explore how art shapes us individuals, communities, and churches around the world through daily, lived liturgy.