Welcome to recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. The biennial festival brings together musicians, critics, journalists, artists, and listeners for three days of concerts, lectures, and conversations that explore the intersection of music and spirituality.

What follows is a lecture given by Katelyn Beaty, an editor at large at Christianity Today, an acquisitions editor with InterVarsity Press and the author of A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World. She’s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post and lives outside Chicago. In this talk, she reaffirms the importance of creating art in times of political and cultural displacement as a vision of grace and love for the world. This lecture was recorded on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on April 1st, 2017.

Thank you to everyone who spoke or performed or attended the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. These recordings were produced in collaboration between the Student Activities Office at Calvin College and the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. You can find more recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music and short films from the festival concerts at ccfw.calvin.edu.