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Makoto Fujimura on How What's Broken Becomes Beautiful

Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work

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Art and Faith, Theology of Making

Not really, although I was ordained to be an elder, a Redeemer. My mother found out about it and she said, I'm not surprised. She had a great uncle who was a Presbyterian evangelist in Japan. So I didn't really grow up in the church or knowing about the fact that I had enormous respect for the Bible. The Psalms and Jesus words, they made sense to me. They resonated with me Psalm 139. William Blake quoted it often, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. And that madesense to me that this gift of art was given as a gift, not as transactional power, not as a gift.

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