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On Saturday, I introduced The Artist’s Way Collective over on Creativityist. This will be a shared online experience of working through The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, together.
I first went through this book three years ago. You can read my impressions at the time here. As I’m leaning into a new season of life, I decided to work through the book again, and thought it would be good to invite others along for the ride. I hope you’ll consider joining us.
There is all sorts of talk about the need for churches to be creative. While I agree, I think the assumption is usually that this creativity happens in the form of programmed expressions from the stage in a Sunday service. This quote reminds us why creativity should be so much more that that:
The reality is that creatives walk into our communities, systems, and structures all the time, and when they do, they intuit the environment we have created and know immediately whether there is space for them. Most often, they discover there is not. If we are going to have systems and structures that allow our communities to respond to the context of our world and what God is doing in such contexts, we must be allowed to create systems and structures that are organic to this emerging world. In order to do this we must be creative! We must allow our imaginations to be funded in news ways from new sources across multiple disciplines, ideas and metaphors. We must allow emergence to happen in our midst by fostering the environments that will allow us to hear God through engaging each other. — Tim Keel, Intuitive Leadership
Things have been quiet around here as my blogging energy has gone toward getting Creativityist off to a strong start these past few weeks. In spite of the attention I’ve given over there, I have no intention of dropping this blog. It will continue as an outlet for my personal and theological wonderings…and wanderings. I have a few posts in the works which should show up soon, and I’m kicking around some ideas for a larger series I might do.
In the meantime, here are some notable writings from over at Creativityist:
