Art, Advent, and Justice: Podcast with Michelle Ting
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On this week’s podcast we had the pleasure of speaking with Michelle Ting, who is a small group leader in the Palo Alto Vineyard in California and a student at Fuller Seminary.
We tackle the topic of art and how that is a way Michelle connects with God and has become a place where she has found out more about herself more about where she comes from.
Michelle essentially speaks about the expression of lament through art, asking the question, why? When there are moments of pain, and how that affects us individually, for her as a Vietnamese-American, and coming into terms with our own family lineage and eventually lead to the concept of racial reconciliation.
Michelle helps us reflect on our own cultural contexts and ethnicity from the standpoint of art as a creative outlet.
RESOURCES:
- Say Their Names – description / photos
- To Our Descendants – description / photos (Good Friday communal art project on generational sin/trauma)
- From Darkness to Light Labyrinth – description / photos
- Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do
- lê thi diem thúy, “Origin Song”
- LINES Ballet, Figures of Speech (clip)
- Carrie Mae Weems, Grace Notes Reflections For Now and From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried
- Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (excerpt)
- Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer