Origin Series: On Mortality
The thematic direction of the ORIGIN series this year, On Mortality, will explore the construct of death and mortality, especially as it relates to how we live in response to our understanding. The aim of this year’s series will be to go beyond the exploration of death as a subject to be understood; rather, the hope is to meditate on the implications of our finitude as artists, as patrons of the arts, as clergy, as believers – and as husbands, wives, children, neighbors, friends, and learn to “number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)
The fall On Mortality Discussion Group starts on Friday, Spetember 29. Click here to sign up.
Watch the Opening Session
featuring Matthew Dickerson
Watch the Closing Session
Featuring Fr. Paul Wheatley and Dr. Mike Green
ABOUT: Origin, an Art House Dallas program, seeks to establish a wholeness and connectedness between spiritual formation, imagination, and the arts with the ultimate intent to establish a sacred perspective on how we individually and collectively live and create. We believe that beauty shown through the arts, culture, and creation holds a powerful ability to form the way we see ourselves, the world, and our interaction with both. As embodied creatures made in the image of the Triune God we must consider the formation of our senses, our emotions, and our ideas. This same incarnate God calls us to be like him in our participation of cultivating goodness, truth, and beauty. There are few things more sacred in life than points of origin. The point from where thoughts, ideas, and perspectives begin holds potent ability to echo and endure through generations and shape how people and cultures both speak and act. How a person interacts with and thinks about the world is the essence of living and the result of a starting point.
The reader is intended to be used alongside the Art House Dallas Origin program, if you are unable to afford the reader and would still love to participate, please fill out this form and let us know your situation.
order the Origin Reader: On mortality
This anthology is the loving creation of a community of friends in hope of transformation and an ever-deepening faith. As with previous anthologies, each chapter includes an anchor text, poetry, visual art, and scripture, and prayerful reflection. We hope you will find the authors, poets, and artists to be wise guides and friends as you enter into a companioned journey of this series. .
This reader is intended to be used alongside the Art House Dallas Origin program, if you are unable to afford this reader and would still love to participate, please fill out this form and let us know your situation.
On Mortality will be available for pickup in Dallas and shipping nationally. Physical and digital versions of the reader are available.