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First United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, gives concerts to raise money for local service organizations. Trinity Lutheran Church in Mission, Kansas, has been sponsoring a religious art show for more than 25 years. Fellowship Lutheran Church runs a Christian arts camp for young people every summer. These are just three of the 18 case studies of practicing arts ministries in Arts Ministry,...

I taught a series of adult education classes entitled P.A.C.T. (the “Partnership for Arts and Christian Theology”) that educated the congregation about the relationship between Christianity and the arts. During this time, in addition to the classes, there were six sermons preached about various topics related to the arts. In the literary and dramatic arts we commissioned poems from Marie Asner, a noted local poet, and sponsored regular poetry services that incorporated historic and contemporary Christian
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