Contemporary worship music

Not only because the art is fairly recent, not in some distant past like the 1600s, but also because of the questions posed by and the involvement with many of the works. Modern and contemporary art is always controversial, but these mechanisms of engagement allow the visitor to have their own opinions of the work. It is okay to think a work of art is ugly. It is okay to think a work of art is amateur. It is okay to not even like your…

Day labourers, London prostitutes, and Mexican migrants are communities that live on the margins of society. Their status and occupation labels them as outcasts as they are considered to be communities who are deviant from societal norms (Gill 1999:120; Day 1999:141; Gonzales and Chavez 2012:277) These individuals live their daily lives in the ‘here and now’, in other words, their temporal orientation is towards the present. According to Park et al., (2016:1-5) and Kwapinska (2009:433), temporal…

WWW8 In William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and The Fury, he enlists different characters like Benjy, a thirty-three year old disabled and mentally ill member of the Compson family to illustrate life in the South during the Reconstruction era of American history. Benjy’s narration is unique in that it warps time, amalgamating many different memories with the present. Benjy’s role within the Compson family and within The Sound and the Fury is to represent unity, both in the familial sense, and…

highest priced types of art are modern and contemporary. Modern art is commonly summarized as impressionism but sometimes varies. Modern art is the artist’s inner visions expressed using real life subject matter and is usually made with many different mediums. Contemporary art is more difficult to describe. Contemporary art is the successor to modern art and is taking place now. Because there is such a large quantity and vastly different artists today, contemporary art cannot be summarized under…

El Anatsui is an inspirational African artist who has inspired the work of many other artists in the contemporary age. He is a mentor to other creative artist who devotes their lives for changing the way people see art, especially African art. In the article, “A Nomad’s Revolutionary Beauty,” the author, Elizabeth Harney, challenges the views of museums and critics about El Anatsui works and how it is limited when put in museums. El Anatsui’s artwork expresses a deeper, global, personal meaning,…

time many religions were being brought about they might have been worshipped. After different religions sprung up, they changed over time to what it is like today. Even some that have been appearing in the present like in Scientology where they worship their god, an alien named Xenu, which came to earth and did all of the life creating. But when did the aliens actually come? When these supposed ancient aliens arrived it must have been really early in the earth’s timeline because the present…

Created in 1958, Sky Cathedral, a piece of assemblage art constructed by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). As it was created in the 1950s, this piece of art falls into the contemporary period, which stretches all the way from post-war to the modern day. Regarded as one of the most successful female sculptures of the 20th century, Nevelson was born in Russia, however, at of 6, Nevelson and her family moved to America, where she would pursuit her art career. In her early days, Nevelson aspired to…

people flood through the doors of local churches to gather as a body and worship together. Yet, as they walk into the church, say their hellos, settle into their seats and prepare to engage in praise and worship, do they ever really consider how the Church has come to where it is regarding congregational singing? When one considers what interesting facts our history might tell them about the journey to our present state of worship in congregational singing and to whom can we attribute for their…

Paper Christians pray to and worship God in more languages than any other religion in the world (Netland and Ott 15). This can be attributed to the gospel’s power to overcome all cultural boundaries. As heirs to God’s kingdom our truth is no longer found in our worldly identity but in our creator (ESV Gal 3:28). Unfortunately, as fallen humans it is impossible to completely separate our own personal understanding of the world from God’s infallible truth. When we worship God for example, our…

Goldenbaum-Yang shared that returning staff resist changing this worship rhythm, even for a good reason. Some of the youngest campers struggle to stay awake for worship at 8:00pm. For them, moving worship to 7:00 pm and having optional game time move to 8:00 pm would allow the younger campers to head to the cabins by 7:30 and begin settling down for the night. However, this rhythm of closing the day with worship holds meaning and value for staff and campers who have attended Camp Don Lee…