Calvin College
Festival of Faith & Music
Conference
Workshop B (Fri, 3.15p)
In the Spirit of FFM
A Student Activities Roundtable
Steven Austin, Ken
Heffner & Jeff Rioux
Fine Arts Center 224 (69)
Student activities at Christian colleges can be venues for important discussions
about art, faith, God, meaning and more. Listen in while experienced activity
directors discuss how they're shaping a new kind of concert season and pop culture
conversation at their colleges.
Playing Out
Considerations of Faith in the World of Localized Live Music
Chris Smit, Joe
LaGrand, Steve DeRuiter, Ben
Scott-Brandt and
David Molinari
Library—Meeter Center Lecture Hall (80)
Every night, in every town, there is a band playing live music. Playing
to two or 200 folks, all these bands are expending energy to connect with
an audience, to sell a CD, to share something new with someone new. Panelists
will discuss what this scene looks like through a lens of faith and ideology. No
celebrity, no record deal, no big money—what does a localized music
scene feel like to musicians who are working out of, and reacting
to, a Christian worldview?
How is this Relevant?
Progressive branding, fake rebellion and the culture industry
Kevin Erickson
Fine Arts Center 224 (34)
Self-consciously straddling the gap between the Christian subculture
and the broader secular world, Relevant Magazine both reflects
and shapes young evangelicals' struggles to find their place in a postmodern
pluralistic society. But what exactly is Relevant's strategy for "engaging
culture", and how does it truly differ from what came before? What
are the real driving forces behind its theological, political, and "progressive" cultural
agendas? In this workshop, I'll use my in-depth critical study of
the magazine and its parent company Relevant Media Group as an
entry point towards discussing our current environment of generationally-based
target marketing, commodified dissent, corporate-funded fake-indie record
labels, ironic t-shirts, rebel rocker-activists, and Christianity's changing
relationship with the culture industry.
Sacred Harp as a "Third
Way"
Matt Hinton
Commons Annex Lecture Hall (200)
A discussion of the question of traditional vs. contemporary
styles in the context of congregational worship. Does Sacred Harp singing
represent a "third way"? You need not have attended the previous
film showing to participate.
Prophetic Imagination Then and Now
Sylvia Keesmaat
DeVos Communications Center—Bytwerk Theatre (115)
The prophets were called to name the violence and pain of the
empire and provide a word of fresh hope in the face of imperial death-dealing.
We will listen to both biblical texts and contemporary artists Mandy Troxel
and Leonard Cohen, who bring such a prophetic imagination to life.
The Cry of the Exodus, Part 2
Music of People in Struggle
The Psalters
Chapel (800)
See description from part one.
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Saint Morrissey and the Gospel
Ben Squires
Fine Arts Center 223 (26)
Morrissey, as lead singer of the Smiths and in his solo career,
has written lyrics that cut deeply—even piercing the soul. While
Morrissey has never claimed the Christian faith as his own, his lyrics
show a recurring conversation with God. This presentation will take
a look at the echoes of the faith in Morrissey’s words as he approaches
the subjects of temptation, God, death, and Gospel-type metaphors, while
also seeing Morrissey’s “pastoral care” and Morrissey
as prophet.