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“When we cross borders culturally, we experience some alienation from our own culture and gain an objective perspective toward our own culture at the same time. A bicultural individual comes to identify home as a culture outside his or her original identity, and may vacillate in commitment and loyalty to both cultures.”
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
“One might say that Japanese faith developed as negative space around the forbidden faith of Christianity. So while the Tokugawa era successfully purged Christians from Japan, an unanticipated outcome was that in banning Christianity they created an imprint of it, a negative space within culture. In a culture that honors the hidden, the weak and the unspoken, Christianity became a hidden reality of Japanese culture.”
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
“Effective stewardship leads to generative work and a generative culture. We turn wheat into bread—and bread into community. We turn grapes into wine—and wine into occasions for joyful camaraderie, conviviality, conversation, and creativity. We turn minerals into paints—and paints into works that lift the heart or stir the spirit. We turn ideas and experiences into imaginative worlds for sheer enjoyment and to expand the scope of our empathy.”
― Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
― Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
“What if we committed to speaking fresh creativity and vision into culture rather than denouncing and boycotting other cultural products?”
― Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
― Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
“Our failure is not that we chose earth over heaven: it is that we fail to see the divine in the earth, already active and working, pouring forth grace and spilling glory into our lives. Artists, whether they are professed believers or not, tap into this grace and glory. There is a "terrible beauty" operating throughout creation. If Christ announced his postresurrection reality into the darkness, even into hell, as the Bible and Christian catechism suggests, then, as theologian Abraham Kuyper put it, there is not one inch of earth that Christ does not call "Mine!”
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
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