Once again, the Murphy summer calendar is at capacity. Between the swimming pool, numerous VBS’s, karate, soccer camps, Busch Gardens, Water Country, family get-aways, a visit from Nana, and a trip to Disney World; it’s a wonder we find time to do anything else but play chauffeur. However, summer has always been a time for…

Art is often considered a solitary calling: talented individuals working and expressing their particular vision of the good, the true, and the beautiful. But many of our most cherished and familiar art forms are intensely social and cooperative: they are not, and cannot come to be, without several, if not many, creators working together. Join…

As an artistic response to our NEW sermon series entitled According to Mark, Redemption Hill Church member Duncan Robertson crafted the following piece: From the artist: “This piece was created for the sermon series titled “According To Mark” or “A2M”. In this series we will be “branching” off from Mark to the other gospels and…

We hope you can join us for the next Makers Series evening this Friday, February 27th at 7:00 p.m. at Third Church (600 Forest Avenue) as trumpeter Taylor Barnett, medical illustrator Paul Gross, and philosopher and cultural critic Jamie Smith share their work and explore how our imaginations provide the bridge between the “already” and…

When we think of art, artists, and creativity, we almost always consider the imagination to be a key component of what artists do, and who they are. It’s not uncommon to hear that a fertile and vivid imagination is what sets “creatives” apart from the rest of us, even more than skills honed by years…

We hope you can join us for the next Makers Series evening this Friday, January 16th at 7:00 p.m. at Third Church (600 Forest Avenue) as essayist Jill Carattini, dancer Karen Watkins-Rios, and soprano Sarah Kate Walston share their work and explore how we embody the arts and live out an incarnational faith. Here is…

The Christian life is one that is rooted in our physical presence in the world, not just in aesthetic or spiritual ideas. So how does art invite us to live more concretely in this world, and invite others to do the same? How do we manage the tension between discipline (spiritual and physical) and expression…

As an artistic response to our NEW Advent sermon series entitled He Has Come, resident artist and Redemption Hill Church member Susanna Seabourne crafted the following piece: From the artist: “The Tumbling Tesseract is a blend of imagination and reality to make tangible a thing that I feel so deeply, yet cannot see. In this…

As an artistic response to our sermon series on Nehemiah, resident artist and Redemption Hill Church member Renee Doorly crafted the following piece: From the artist: “While navigating through the book of Nehemiah, the recurring imagery of gates in the city wall described an entry point and a promise of restoration. In the last chapter…

Hunt.Gather’s Fall Retreat registration is now open! On October 3rd and 4th at The Fourhundred, join local women in hands-on, family-style workshops for all skill levels: from students, to hobbyists, to career artists, to retirees. Sessions are open to the public, facilitated by local women. Sign up HERE! $10 per session covers materials, so sign…