Feasting on Friendship: The Table as Art and Sacrament
The Rabbit Room presents this session from Hutchmoot 2024: Feasting on Friendship: The Table as Art and Sacrament (by Jennifer Trafton & Lanier Ivester) A discussion of sacramental living, particularly as it pertains to the table: its significance as a place where relationships are nourished as well as bodies, and as a lesser, daily sacrament that shepherds us weekly towards the Lord’s Table. Exploring the hospitality can be born out of a shared sense of pilgrimage, we will reflect on how both our art and our friendship have flourished around tables of our lives.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It Is Not Finished: Miyazaki and the Crushing Weight of Beauty
Hayao Miyazaki is a living legend of the animation world. Named the“Walt Disney of Japan,” he’s made over a dozen films, many of which areconsidered masterpieces. But what did he sacrifice in pursuit of cinematicperfection? His most recent Oscar-winning film, The Boy and the Heron, inaddition to showcasing the hallmarks of a Miyazaki movie, might also serveas a Rosetta Stone for interpreting a complex man and his relationship withhis (un)finished body of work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What Is a Christian Game?
In this session from Hutchmoot 2022, Andy Patton asks, "What Is a Christian Game?" From smartphone apps to Amazon’s algorithms, games and game dynamics areplaying an increasingly significant role in modern life. But what is a “Christian”game? To begin to answer that question, we have to ask a more primaryquestion: What does it mean to be human and how can games cause humans toflourish in the modern world?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Vincent Van Gogh and the Sacred Work of Stewarding Another’s Pain
What if you were primarily know for for the most shameful thing about you? Most people, if they know anything about Van Gogh, know that he cut off his ear. What brought this visionary painter to such a place of despair and shame? And once we know the actual story of why he wounded himself in this way, what obligation do we have to steward his painful story well? This seminar digs into the circumstances surrounding Vincent’s beautiful and tragic final years, and examines how to care well for fellow sufferers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What John le Carré's Spies Teach Us About Conspiracy Theories
In this session from 2021's Hutchmoot: Homebound, Mark Meynell looks at the long career of spy-novelist John le Carré and reflects on how our outlook as Christians ought to counteract the power of conspiracy theories.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We call Hutchmoot a “conference for everyone,” so it follows that this is a “podcast for everyone.” This series features sessions recorded at the Rabbit Room’s annual conference which celebrates art, music, story, and faith in all their many intersections.
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