Makoto Fujimura

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  Culture Care : Reconnecting With Beauty For Our Common Life

  $20.00

  Foreword By Mark Labberton
  Preface
  1. On Becoming Generative
  2. Culture Care Defined
  3. Black River, Cracked Lands
  4. From Culture Wars To A Common Life
  5. Soul Care
  6. Beauty As Food For The Soul
  7. Leadership From The Margins
  8. “Tell ’em About The Dream!”
  9. Two Lives At The Margins
  10. Our Calling In The Starry Night
  11. Opening The Gates
  12. Cultivating Cultural Soil
  13. Cultural Estuaries
  14. Custodians Of Culture Care
  15. Business Care
  16. Practical Advice For Artists
  17. Tilling Our Cultural Soil In The Age Of Anxiety
  18. New Vocabularies, New Stories
  19. What If?
  A Gratuitous Postscript
  Discussion Guide

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  Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated. Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture’s soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms. Anyone with a calling to create-from visual artists, musicians, writers, and actors to entrepreneurs, pastors, and business professionals-will resonate with its message. This book is for anyone with a desire or an artistic gift to reach across boundaries with understanding, reconciliation, and healing. It is a book for anyone with a passion for the arts, for supporters of the arts, and for “creative catalysts” who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come. Culture Care includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.

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  Silence And Beauty

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  Introduction: A Pilgrimage
  1. A Journey Into Silence: Pulverization
  2. A Culture Of Beauty: Cultural Context For Silence
  3. Ambiguity And Faith: Japan, The Ambiguous And Myself
  4. Ground Zero
  5. Fumi-e Culture
  6. Hidden Faith Revealed
  7. The Redemption Of Father Rodrigues
  8. The Aroma: Toward An Antidote To Trauma
  9. Mission Beyond The Waves
  Appendix 1: Endo And Kawabata
  Appendix 2: Endo And Graham Greene
  Appendix 3: Kenzaburo Oe’s Ambiguous Japan
  Notes
  Glossary Of Japanese Terms
  Author Index
  Subject Index
  Scripture Index

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  Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence, first published in 1966, endures as one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Its narrative of the persecution of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan raises uncomfortable questions about God and the ambiguity of faith in the midst of suffering and hostility. Endo’s Silence took internationally renowned visual artist Makoto Fujimura on a pilgrimage of grappling with the nature of art, the significance of pain and his own cultural heritage. His artistic faith journey overlaps with Endo’s as he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and literature, expressed in art both past and present. He finds connections to how faith is lived in contemporary contexts of trauma and glimpses of how the gospel is conveyed in Christ-hidden cultures. In this world of pain and suffering, God often seems silent. Fujimura’s reflections show that light is yet present in darkness, and that silence speaks with hidden beauty and truth.

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