Caring for culture through wrestling deeply with issues of art, faith, and humanity.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) For the third annual Culture Care Summit, Brehm Center director Mako Fujimura hosted a conversation on culture care in education, journalism, and more. (Pictured left to right: Makoto Fujimura, Ivan Penn, Andy Crouch, Catherine Hirshfield Crouch, Satyan Devadoss)
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Mark Labberton reflects on creation that groans toward beauty and how the arts can express this deep longing. He is joined by Mako Fujimura and Andy Crouch, author and Fuller trustee, for a conversation on “kintsugi theology,” vulnerability, and culture care.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Ivan Penn, alternative energy reporter for the New York Times, reflects on justice, truth-telling and ethics, and the risks he has faced standing against a culture of greed and power in a public forum.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Mako Fujimura, Andy Crouch, and Ivan Penn reflect on the complicated challenges of ethics, media, and public communication during this political moment.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Left: Andy Crouch, author and Fuller trustee, lectures on the intersection of culture care and the Shema, reflecting on the biblical vision of the complex interconnected reality of personhood, family, and culture. Right: Catherine Hirshfield Crouch, professor of physics at Swarthmore College, who spoke on higher education and science.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Satyan Devadoss, Fletcher Jones Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of San Diego, lectures on complexity, the limits of quantification, and a vision of mathematics informed by the humanities.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Various voices from the Culture Care Summit reflect together on culture care, truth-telling in the public sphere, and the future of higher education.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Students and alumni respond to the Culture Care Summit with research at the intersection of worship, theology, and the arts.
(Culture Care Summit 2018 | Creation and New Creation) Maria Fee, adjunct professor of theology and culture and PhD student (pictured above) leads students through a creative thesis project.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Mako Fujimura, visual artist and director of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts, reflects on the relationships among culture care, beauty, and suffering. A community of artists and theologians reflected on these themes at the Brehm Center’s second annual Culture Care Summit, and explore more below.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Nate Risdon, director of operations for the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts (pictured), elaborates on the Brehm Center’s vision for caring for culture.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Seminary, reflects on themes of culture care through the lens of exile in the Old Testament and today’s culture.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Celebrated author Philip Yancey and Brehm Center director Mako Fujimura discuss Shūsaku Endo’s novel Silence and reflect on the role of art to respond gracefully to cultural trauma and suffering around the world.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Scott Cormode, director of innovation, lectures on culture care, the marketplace, and sharing stories of hope to encourage those entrusted to our care.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Oscar García-Johnson, associate professor of theology and Latino/a studies (pictured), and Joey Tomassoni, artist and church planter, reflect on the complex overlap of European colonization and mission work and navigating the worlds of justice, faith, and art.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Alexis Abernethy, professor of psychology (pictured), and Shann Ray, novelist and psychologist, reflect on forgiveness, worship, naming our suffering, and cultivating a yielding presence in the world.
(Culture Care Summit 2017 | Beauty in Exile) Pictured above: members of the All-Seminary Chapel team lead attendees in worship (left to right: students Megan Moody, September Penn, Melba Mathew, and Director of Chapel Julie Tai).
(Culture Care Summit 2016 | Culture and Poetry) Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California, recites poetry and discusses its role in shaping culture at “Culture Care and Poetry,” an event sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. He read from his most recent book 99 Poems: New and Selected and reflected with Brehm Center Director Mako Fujimura on what he learned while leading the National Endowment for the Arts.
(Culture Care Summit 2016 | Culture and Poetry) Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California, recites poetry and discusses its role in shaping culture at “Culture Care and Poetry,” an event sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. He read from his most recent book 99 Poems: New and Selected and reflected with Brehm Center Director Mako Fujimura on what he learned while leading the National Endowment for the Arts.
(Culture Care Summit 2016 | Culture and Poetry) Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California, recites poetry and discusses its role in shaping culture at “Culture Care and Poetry,” an event sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. He read from his most recent book 99 Poems: New and Selected and reflected with Brehm Center Director Mako Fujimura on what he learned while leading the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Culture Care summits are hosted as Payton Lectures in the Travis Auditorium.
International Arts Movement creates a new paradigm by lovingly tending to cultural soil and caring for artists as pollinators of the good, true, and beautiful. Our culture is not a territory to win, but a garden to tend to, an ecosystem to steward.
The mission of International Arts Movement is to collaborate with culture care affiliates to nurture artists and creative catalysts, academics and professionals, to provide a sanctuary in which to gather, learn, collaborate, and create. IAM serves as a catalytic agent for the renewal of our cultural ecosystem and to create bridges between cultures.
The Emerging Voice series is offered by students and alumni during the Culture Care Summit. Listen to these students bear witness to culture in their specific contexts at the 2017 Culture Care Summit:
Listen to Andy Crouch lecture on the intersection of culture care and the Shema, reflecting on the biblical vision of the complex interconnected reality of personhood, family, and culture:
