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An idea made manifest: the creation and mission of A Sanctified Art

Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity recounts how a twirling vision became the ministry of A Sanctified Art, an arts collective creating resources for church leaders and spiritual seekers.

Many of us are devoted to music in worship. When words alone are not enough, we sing. How many hymns do you know by heart? Contrast this to visual art. When you think of your favorite story in Scripture, does an art piece come to mind? How many pieces of visual art have spiritual or theological significance for you?

I’m not exactly sure how or when the vision took hold of me, but when it did, it was undeniable, voracious. I could not let it go. Or maybe it refused to let me go. It was a vision cast from longing, from years of vocational confusion, from decades of sitting quietly in stifled sanctuaries and from a dream that the church could be nourished by art.

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