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Reigniting Awe: A 5280 Fellow Inspires Artists and Scientists Through Collaboration
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100th Episode! Favorite Moments Recap

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary The Faith & Work Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with a recap of some of our favorite moments! Listen in as Joanna Meyer, Dustin Moody, and Catherine Sandgren share their personal favorites ranging from Dr. […]
Hannah Echols-Grieser
Reigniting Awe: A 5280 Fellow Inspires Artists and Scientists Through Collaboration

As a teenager, Chloe Johnson aspired to study and work as a visual artist. Today, she has a doctorate in metallurgical and materials engineering and works as a metallurgist for ELEMENTUM 3D. Though her day job may seem like a switch from her earlier dreams, she’s found that the art and science world have a […]
Reimagining Creativity for a Broken World

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary Can Christian creativity change the world? What does it look like to integrate culture, art, and faith to help bring about healing? Joanna Meyer and Brian Gray talk with Sho Baraka, a globally recognized recording […]
S8E6: Sandra McCracken on Christmas and Songwriting

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How do songwriters lean into faith in their work? What unique challenges has this year brought to musicians, and how can Christians reclaim the joy of corporate worship, even while we’re apart? Joanna Meyer and […]
Olivia Duncan
Reflections from “The Faithful Artist”

Artists often feel misunderstood and isolated as they pursue their craft. While the work of an artist can inspire us to experience life and God in new ways, their work can be lonely and frustrating. On Thursday, Sept. 26, Denver Institute for Faith & Work hosted The Faithful Artist, an event to explore and engage […]
The Value of Art for Business

Does the physical environment of a business matter? Walls, color, light, images – many businesses use buildings to communicate their corporate values or mission. Yet are our workplaces beautiful? Should art have a role in businesses and workplaces in Colorado? Can art awaken creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and a sense of deeper purpose in our work?Jeff […]
Dustin Moody
The Artist’s Voice: Integrating Faith & Work

One of the things we’re most excited about at our upcoming event, “The Faithful Artist,” is a juried exhibit featuring four local artists. As part of the application process, we asked each artist to reflect on the relationship between their work and their faith. We’ve highlighted a few of their responses below, and we’re excited […]
Joanna Meyer
3 Thoughts on Arts & Faith

What is good art? It’s a question for the ages and one creators, collectors, and patrons wrestle with as they weigh the merits of various works. What qualifies as good Christian art, and who decides, are even tougher questions. Are Precious Moments figurines or Thomas Kinkade prints closer to God’s heart, or do abstract works […]
S3E4: Cameron Anderson on Arts and Faith

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary Faith and the arts have a complicated relationship. While the historic Church often served as patrons for painters, musicians, and sculptors, artists today often feel alienated from faith communities. How can artists integrate their faith […]
S1E6: Sho Baraka & the Artist’s Vocation

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher. Summary Hip-hop recording artist Sho Baraka joins the Denver Institute team to talk about artists and calling. Sho leads a movement in Atlanta called the Terminus Collective, which convenes believers around an inspiring vision of […]
Jeff Haanen
Buildings Shape Your Soul

That may be hard to believe, but I think Stratford Caldecott, in his excellent book Beauty for Truth’s Sake, has convincingly made the case that architecture is undergirded by distinct understandings of the world. And in the modern world, due primarily to materialism and utilitarianism, beauty has been mostly lost in our buildings. And with […]
Jeff Haanen, Laura Bernero
“Expand Your Cultural Imagination”: A Christian Rap Artist on Creativity  

In early June, I invited my friend Jim Mullins of Surge Network (a faith and work organization in Phoenix) to share with other movement leaders at City Gate, an annual gathering of peers doing similar work to Denver Institute.   Jim stood up and said, “I want to begin my talk on theological imagination — […]
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