It's disheartening but utterly expected to see the Northeast absent from efforts such as these. Has anyone up here ever attempted to initiate anything like an Art House NE or some other related kind of community of Christ-following artists? I'm in the vicinity of Boston, an area that was written off long ago by musicians and parachurch ministries, so I'm used to it. But wouldn't a cultural epicenter such as New York be rife with possibilities? That wouldn't help me, of course. I'm just sayin'.
Rick, we have had inquiries from folks on the east coast over the years. Unfortunately, we don't have the bandwidth and staffing to bring new locations in. As for east coast area now, one group that I would've included on the list if I'd kept going is Goldenwood. Goldenwood is a non-profit that exists to develop ecosystems of hope by cultivating a new vision of work. Andi and I have collaborated some with them and hope to do more. Also, for years Mako and his IAM org was right in NYC. No longer though. In Boston area there is https://www.southboroughlabri.org/ Dick and Mardi who started it are longtime friends of ours.
Thank you, sir. I appreciate you sharing this information. Kindly forgive my persecution complex. It comes easily to Jesus People in the Northeast. :-)
A good friend just asked for the lyrics to today's song. I thought I'd go ahead an post them.
Holding On and Letting Go
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2020, It’s Time To Art (BMI)
It was not what I had planned
Not what I had coming
Not the sins of the father
Or my own for that matter
It was a common trip and fall
With a bloody knee and tearing
Of the dress that I was wearing
Nothing more and nothing less
So don’t mistake my face as a mind gone quiet
I’m smiling inside, I’m thinking you should try it
I see the wings of history in flight
The paradoxical morning light
When darkness is the wake-up call
And our city laughs through the pain
All we want is ordinary gains
We don’t need a windfall, to invest our all
It is Lent and sickness seeps into everything conceivable
Yet all is well with my soul
I’m holding on and letting go, holding on and letting go
I’m holding on and letting go, holding on and letting go
I raise the child, I read the book
I’m less concerned with how I look
I kiss the man, I shape the clay
I’m the story of a woman at play
On any given best-case kind of day
There will not be time enough to love
Everything and every
One more word about conviction
Might be noble and beautiful
Or a mess of contradictions and fistfuls of rules
You can care through despair, care through shiny victories
Care through communion and care through unbelief
But you gotta care, always care
I’m holding on and letting go, holding on and letting go
I’m holding on and letting go, holding on and letting go
It's disheartening but utterly expected to see the Northeast absent from efforts such as these. Has anyone up here ever attempted to initiate anything like an Art House NE or some other related kind of community of Christ-following artists? I'm in the vicinity of Boston, an area that was written off long ago by musicians and parachurch ministries, so I'm used to it. But wouldn't a cultural epicenter such as New York be rife with possibilities? That wouldn't help me, of course. I'm just sayin'.
Rick, we have had inquiries from folks on the east coast over the years. Unfortunately, we don't have the bandwidth and staffing to bring new locations in. As for east coast area now, one group that I would've included on the list if I'd kept going is Goldenwood. Goldenwood is a non-profit that exists to develop ecosystems of hope by cultivating a new vision of work. Andi and I have collaborated some with them and hope to do more. Also, for years Mako and his IAM org was right in NYC. No longer though. In Boston area there is https://www.southboroughlabri.org/ Dick and Mardi who started it are longtime friends of ours.
Thank you, sir. I appreciate you sharing this information. Kindly forgive my persecution complex. It comes easily to Jesus People in the Northeast. :-)
Not to worry. Nothing but empathy.
Many good works!
Thank you! I really hope that some cool online writerly things pop up soon!
Both Dallas and St. Paul have writer cohorts. Keep your eyes peeled!
Thank you :)
You're very welcome.
#7 is about Ava Duverney. But the link is not to her substack.
https://avaduvernay.substack.com/notes
Thanks John for the assist. All fixed. Peace.