Makoto Fujimura is an artist and speaker, as well as Director of the International Arts Movement and Founder of the Fujimura Institute. He is a graduate of Tokyo National University of the Arts, and his work is exhibited at galleries around the world. He is author of Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture.
The Tears of Christ & The Silence of God Conference
Speaker(s): Makoto Fujimura, Steven Garber
Date: Summer 2018
Length: 9h 51m
Product ID: RGDL4814S
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Description
The Information Age has made us witnesses to the breadth of the world's sorrows like never before. Often, we are overwhelmed by all we know. If it is a hurricane in Haiti one day, it is a chemical bombing in Syria the next, then a terrorist attack in Egypt followed by a mass shooting in Las Vegas, and on and on and on. As we look around us, we know that everyone everywhere knows the wounds of the world, sometimes very intimately, always very universally. What do we do? After we have cried out, 'Christ have mercy,' then what?
This symposium grows out of the long friendship of Makoto Fujimura and Steven Garber, who together have wrestled with the meaning of their own vocations in the face of the tears of Christ, finding in them a way to live, and still love, amidst the ruins. Delve deeply into the meaning of Martin Scorcese's film, Silence, from the novel by Shusaku Endo. Reflect on our common calling to listen to the suffering of the world, even as we speak to the world in and through our own unique vocations.
A: Suffering & the Silence of God
B: Addressing Suffering: Shusaku Endo's Silence & Makoto Fujimura's Silence & Beauty
C: Discussion from Film Screening: Martin Scorcese's Silence
D: Film Discussion, The Tears of Christ (John 11)
E: Addressing Global Injustice, Sorrow and Sadness & Closing Remarks
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Steven Garber has a classroom among many people in many places. As the Founder and Principal of the Washington Institute, the heart of his own calling is that people understand the integral character of faith, vocation, and culture. Author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior and Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, he writes frequently for Comment and Critique. For many years he taught on Capitol Hill in the American Studies Program, and then became the Scholar-in-Residence for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.nHe serves as a board member for Ransom Fellowship, the Blood:Water Mission, A Rocha, and the Telos Project, and as a consultant for the Wedgwood Circle, the Murdock Trust, the Demdaco Corporation and the Mars Corporation.
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