From Baldwin Wallace Faith & Life Lecture Series: "Three presentations on the theme "Awakening the Dead: The Power of Music and Art as Hope for the Living" with Dr. Christopher Pramuk

In his book "The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music, Art and Theology," Dr. Christopher Pramuk suggests that what divides us across so many explosive fault lines today — political and religious, racial and economic — is rooted ultimately in a profound poverty and captivity of imagination. The poets and prophets, artists and saints, awaken our capacity to see and feel from within the life-worlds of others, including the ancestors, the forgotten dead.

Wednesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m.
"You Can’t Blow Out a Fire: Singing the Power of Resurrection Faith"
Lindsay-Crossman Chapel

Dr. Pramuk will explore with us the fertile boundaries between the artistic and prophetic imagination and the galvanizing relationship in movements for social justice between the living and the dead, drawing from the music of the spirituals, Peter Gabriel, U2 and the insights of Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin.

Thursday, February 24 at 10 a.m.
"Bringing Nativity into the Apocalypse: The Quiet Courage of Artist William Hart McNichols"
Lindsay-Crossman Chapel

Dr. Pramuk will examine the same dynamism of empathy and prophetic hope in the encounter with visual art, examining the life and courageous vision of Catholic priest and renowned iconographer Fr. William Hart McNichols.

Thursday, February 24 at 2 p.m.
A panel discussion on "Imagination: The Realm of Hope"
Sandstone Three, Strosacker Hall

Dr. Pramuk looks to Bruce Springsteen and others for summary insights on the imagination as the realm of shared hope for life together in society."