Art House Dallas is honored to welcome James K.A. Smith for a conversation on Being Still in a Noisy World: The Arts as Invitation to a Contemplative Life.

We most powerfully encounter the infinite God when we turn to the depths of our interior life, as Augustine said. But our hurried lives distract us from the contemplative stillness required to confront ourselves and meet God. Thankfully, the arts come to us as a gift in the practice of contemplation; paintings and poems arrest us and ask us to attend to the world, and ourselves, in a different way.

Facilitated Q&A to follow the presentation.

Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Central Commons | 4711 Westside, Dallas, TX 75209
Admission: Space is limited, Suggestion Donation $15.00 - $30.00. All tickets include wine, beer, and hors d'oeuvres. Select tickets also include Art House Dallas’ Reader On Believing: Collection of Meditations.
Additional Details: Space is limited, masks are required indoors

James K.A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College and prior to joining Image in 2018 was editor-in-chief of Comment magazine for six years. Smith is an award-winning author and speaker, his books include On the Road with St. Augustine, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, Imagining the Kingdom, and You Are What You Love. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Slate, America, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and The Hedgehog Review. You can learn more about him and his work here.