Creativity, Reconciliation, and Flourishing

Our Summer 2025 series, Beside Still Waters , focuses on the places where creativity brings life into a world fatigued by brokenness and division. From jazz to Jane Austen and in between, this season we’ll focus on the ways literature and the arts can refresh and challenge our inner lives—and connect us with the Creator of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Guided by theologian and musician David Bailey and concert pianist and chamber musician Mia Chung, this episode explores the concept that music involves mutual support, balance, and give and take among musicians to create a cohesive experience. And we reflect on how Christian communities can apply these principles of collaboration and harmony to create faith communities that are transformative: To the extent that the arts can actually cultivate that practice of incorporating the right hemisphere and in communication with the left, it's always together, you know, they're, complimentary. I think we can benefit each other in terms of community formation, but even benefit our own intellectual lives and the amount of joy we experience living in this world. - Mia Chung If this work resonates with you, please consider joining the Trinity Forum community as a society member . This podcast is an edited version of our Online Conversation recorded in June, 2024. You can access the full conversation with transcript here. Learn more about Mia Chung and David Bailey . Episode Outline 00:00 Introduction to Trinity Forum Conversations 00:34 Exploring Music and Christian Community 01:36 Cherie Harder on Cultural Challenges 02:55 Welcoming David Bailey and Mia Chung 04:41 David Bailey's Musical Journey 06:56 Mia Chung's Musical Formation 10:44 The Role of Arts in Reconciliation 13:19 The Power of Music in Community Building 23:17 Reintegration and Reconciliation at MIT 28:52 Challenges and Practices for Reconciliation 30:10 Digital Discipleship and Secular Influence 30:44 The Importance of Fasting and Listening 32:33 Engaging Differently as Followers of Jesus 33:28 The Role of Technology in Information Consumption 34:18 Post-COVID Convening and Empathetic Listening 37:25 The Power of Music and Emotional Expression 40:04 Silence and Contemplative Practices 44:43 Artistic Collaboration and Reconciliation 51:19 Final Thoughts and Encouragement Authors and books mentioned in the conversation: Arrabon: Learning Reconciliation Through Community & Worship Music , by David Bailey Related Trinity Forum Readings : Hannah and Nathan , by Wendell Berry Painting as a Pastime , by Winston Churchill The Four Quartets , by TS Eliot Letters from Vincent Van Gogh Spirit and Imagination, selections from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why Work? , by Dorothy Sayers The Loss of the University , featuring the works of Wendell Berry and Jacques Maritain To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society .

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