What Shoes Should I Wear?

William Jewell College 2013 Baccalaureate Service.
Photo © WJC

STORIES FROM THE ROAD

WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE, LIBERTY, MISSOURI. Once a week we gathered with William Jewell College students in our Genesis+Art Studio to create a communal piece of art. Together, we created an intensional space to explore our creativity, spiritual connections and to discover our common vision and purpose. We asked questions of each other and explored personal and global issues like economic upheaval, political instability, ecological extremes, cultural and religious polarization and how we might find our common ground rather than let these issues divide us. Who are we as a human community?  And How might we turn to one another? We transformed symbol, shape and color to create a prayer canvas to be used in a Taizé style vesper service called the Holden Prayer Around the Cross: For the Healing of the Nations. The art was part of our 2013 Baccalaureate Service homily to the 2013 graduates, parents and faculty titled: What Shoes Should I Wear? William Jewell College Commencement Ceremony.