A Morning Mini-Retreat with

Wes Vander Lugt

Saturday, October 19   9:00am-12:00noon
Coffee and Fellowship at 8:30am   Free and all are invited to attend.

Talk 1: “Why Beauty Matters for Everyone”
Talk 2: “Reimagining the Beauty of Creation and Our Role Within It”

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If we want to be healthy and grow in our journey of faith, hope, and love, beauty is not optional. Beauty is more like oxygen for our souls than like perfume. It comes to us as a gift, moving us to make our own creative contributions to the unfolding story of God. In these sessions, Wes Vander Lugt will explore these claims, ways we can breathe in more beauty in our daily lives, and how we can receive and cultivate the beauty of creation.

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Wes Vander Lugt is a pastor-theologian, teacher, writer, nonprofit leader, and arts advocate. He teaches theology and directs the Leighton Ford Initiative in Theology,

the Arts, and Gospel Witness at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is the

co-founder of Kinship Plot, a community of learning and practice in Charlotte that cultivates resonant relationships of every kind. Wes is the author of several books, including Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith that Breathes and editor of the forthcoming A Prophet in the Darkness: Exploring Theology in the Art of Georges Rouault.
 

There will also be a poetry reading with Abigail Carroll,
and worship through music with Matthew Dickerson.