Art Life Faith Podcast
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Art Life Faith Podcast
Listen in as we discuss art, life, and the Christian faith
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68. The Purpose of Beauty
Hello and welcome to the Art Life Faith podcast. I'm your host, Roger Lowther.
Every year, we have interns come work alongs...
67. Christian Metal with Imari Tones
Welcome to the Art Life Faith podcast, and I'm your host, Roger Lowther.
Well, before we get this episode’s interview, I wa...
66. Moon Creature with Verity Hayhow
A lot has been happening since our last podcast, so let me catch you up a bit. First, our church, Grace City Church Tokyo, celebrated its 15th anniver...
65. Dead Sea Squirrels with Mike Nawrocki
This episode, I have the privilege of talking with Mike Nawrocki, co-creator of VeggieTales and the beloved voice of Larry the Cucumber.
64. Lausanne Conversations 3
This is the third in a series of conversations I've shared with you from Lausanne Congress 4, which took place September 22–28, 2024 in Seoul, South K...
63. Lausanne Conversations 2
I'd like to continue in this episode what we began in the last, reflecting on the Lausanne Fourth Congress that happened at the end of September 2024,...
62. Lausanne Conversations 1
In September, I had the honor of attending the 4th Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism in Seoul or Incheon, South Korea. The Lausanne movement celeb...
61. Summer Internships
Are you a college student? If you are, have you ever considered doing an internship somewhere in the world with a missions team? In this episode, we'r...
60. A Taste of Grace through Sushi
My family and I live on an island that's part of the reclaimed land of Tokyo Bay. It's at the mouth of the Sumida River, which flows down from the hea...
59. A Taste of Grace through Mochi
When you walk out of an airport and enter a country that's foreign to you for the first time, one of the things you might notice is the different smel...
58. A Taste of Grace through Ohanami
Well, it's here! The day has finally come. The launch of my next book “A Taste of Grace” is right around the corner, coming this Monday, May 27, on Me...
57. Beauty through God’s Eyes with Satomi Suzuki
Just the other day we hosted a Zoom call for our friend Satomi Suzuki to help raise money for her upcoming artist residency. She’s a visual artist and...
56. Composing for Film and Games with Tsumugu Misugi
Here is a brief report from our relief trip to Ishikawa Prefecture last weekend, responding to the needs from that enormous 7.6 magnitude earthquake t...
55. Fukushima Christmas
This episode, I want to share some stories from Christmas concerts in Fukushima. Yes, that Fukushima, the second-only-to-Chernobyl-nuclear-meltdown-di...
54. On Writing with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Many of you have been writing me about this earthquake that hit Japan just a couple of weeks ago on January 1st. What a way to begin the new year! As...
53. GCAMM Conversations 3
Welcome back to the Art, Life, Faith Podcast, and I’m your host Roger Lowther. This really has been fun for me, sharing conversations in the past two...
52. GCAMM Conversations 2
I’m excited to continue our discussion from the last episode, giving a little peek into some of the conversations and relationships that were happenin...
51. GCAMM Conversations 1
This episode, I am honored to introduce you to some of the people I met at the GCAMM Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, the Global Consultation on Arts...
50. Let Us Draw Near – A Conversation with Ron Man
This is our 50th podcast episode. Woo hoo! Happy birthday, Art Life Faith Podcast! I can't believe we've done this 50 times now. I'm so grateful for a...
49. A Café Performance
"This is the place I go for church. And this is the place that I go to hang out with my friends. And this is the space that I might go for some artist...
48. Sake
“Kanpai!” We called in a loud voice together as we clinked our little ceramic cups. This was my very first experience of sake and I really didn't know...
47. Nukazuke — A Taste of Grace
Nukadoko is a mixture of rice bran, salt, and water, where cucumbers, carrots, radishes, and other vegetables could be put in to make a specific kind...
46. Kaiseki Dining
Deep in the shadows of the mountains and autumn leaves, red paper lantern faintly illuminated the entrance to a traditional Japanese restaurant. The r...
45. Cow Pie Water
All 40 plastic gallon jugs were completely empty. I lifted each just to be sure. Sweat evaporated from my face so quickly that all I felt were deep la...
44. Conversations through Art with Mayuko Shono
Let me try to paint the picture for you. You're walking through a really busy shopping district. There's nothing Christian anywhere around. Then you s...
43. Anniversary of the 2011 Earthquake with Rachel Reese Kollmeyer
March 11, 2023 is the 12th anniversary of that devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck the nation of Japan, and a day that c...
42. Art Internships in Tokyo
Welcome to the Art Life Faith Podcast. This is the show where we talk about art, what it has to do with your life and what it has to do with the Chris...
41. On Being A Japanese Christian with Ayaka Uchida
I was saved in college in 2000 in the USA, where the pastor told me to ‘put off your old life of sin, everything Japanese, and put on the new life in...
40. Great Festival of Heaven
Everything we delight in now in the festival of Christmas is but a taste of that ultimate beauty and joy we find in the Great Festival of Heaven.
39. A Thread x A Thread — Art of Chiyoko Myose
In a profound and mysterious way, God saved the world by coming into the world. He came as a little "thread" to 結ぶ (musubu), "to tie" onto our tangl...
38. Bach and the Navajo — A Conversation with Samuel Metzger
In my first month in Japan, I was helping to lead worship on a pipe organ, when an older missionary came up and started to berate me. “You can’t play...
37. Imaginative Expression Specialists — A Conversation with Byron Spradlin
In the photograph, "How Beautiful are the Feet," we see a circle showing only the feet of the dancers. On one foot, they wear a point shoe. On the oth...
36. Living in Full View of the God of Grace
I’m excited to announce that our first official book with Community Arts Media is coming out on November 1, 2022, “Living in Full View of the God of G...
35. I’m So Hungry!
“I’m sooo hungry!” I said, “I want to eat something!” “No,” my wife said. “We have to keep going. If we eat now, there won’t be enough for later.” We...
34. Hope Will Not End In Despair
Today I’d like to introduce you to Daisuke Yokoyama, an amazing Christian singer songwriter here in Japan. I had the privilege of meeting him in the r...
33. Global Mission Chapel
So here they were in this position of weakness. They had an unfinished building. Their numbers were small. They were still rebuilding trust in their c...
32. Kintsugi Academy
I’d like to share Kunio Nakamura-san’s message about Kintsugi Academy and the role kintsugi can play in our lives. This traditional Japanese art of me...
31. Tsunami Violin
This week I’ve been working on putting subtitles to the various talks from our “Aroma of Beauty” conference we held here in Tokyo in March. There were...
30. Setomono
Everyone in Japan knows the word setomono, because you find it on quite a few boxes you get in the mail. It means “fragile,” but it also literally mea...
29. Cow Pie Water
All forty were completely empty. I lifted each plastic gallon jug just to be sure. Hikers in the previous town promised a huge cache of water here. Wh...