ORIGIN

SPIRITUAL FORMATION SERIES

There are few things more sacred in life than points of origin. The point from where thoughts, ideas, and perspectives begin holds potent ability to echo and endure through generations and shape how people and cultures both speak and act. How a person interacts with and thinks about the world is the essence of living and the result of a starting point.

Origin, an Art House Dallas program, seeks to establish a wholeness and connectedness between spiritual formation, imagination, and the arts with the ultimate intent to establish a sacred perspective on how we individually and collectively live and create. We believe that beauty shown through the arts, culture, and creation holds a powerful ability to form the way we see ourselves, the world, and our interaction with both.

In light of this, we believe that observing beauty gives witness to something deep and life-giving—the Source and Sustainer of all creation. As embodied creatures made in the image of the Triune God we must consider the formation of our senses, our emotions, and our ideas. This same incarnate God calls us to be like him in our participation of cultivating goodness, truth, and beauty.

Gathering
Origin is comprised of a series of gatherings featuring speakers, presentations, and facilitated discussions. Each year a new theme is chosen as the focus Origin which the community walks through together. From May through September this program is focused around our reader, with a series of speakers and discussion groups, and twice a year Art House Dallas partners with other organizations to host larger evening events.

Current Series

Past Series

Community Partners

All Saints Dallas — Pegasus Institute — Image Journal — Mockingbird — Park Cities Presbyterian Church

Past Event Speakers

Malcolm Guite, Makoto Fujimura, Nancy Pearcey, Sylvester Jacobs, Bruce Herman, Gideon Strauss, James KA Smith, Douglas McKelvey

Past Luncheon Speakers

Brett Bradshaw (Pegasus Fellows), Nika Spaulding (St. Jude), Mark McDowell (RTS), Tim Basselin (Dallas Theological Seminary), Jurrita Williams Louie (UMC - North Texas Conference), John Poitevent, Blake Schwarz (Pegasus Fellows), Paul Wheatley