We understand our essential identity as bridge builders with a passion for spanning the gap between the Church and the Arts.

The protestant church has to a large degree adandoned the field of the arts, giving central focus to the activites of teaching and evangelizing through the spoken word. We believe that this has resulted in an impoverished Christian experience and in the post modern context we find ourselves increasingly rejected as a source of relevance and truth.

Our intention is to reconcile the church to the arts, restoring to her an understanding of their value and function and igniting a new sense of creative vision for expanding the kingdom of God.

The following quotation from Brother Benedict Werner Traut
(a german writer, artist, member of a Lutheran monastic order and modern mystic) from his book Faith and Art illustrates the core issue at stake here:

"With these meditative observations I wish to impart to you some impulses and stimulations, and to encourage you to open yourself to art as a very important and indispensable element of life, and to involve yourself with it, to enter into a dialogue of exchange with it and to consider that alongside the Word, the language of pictures is a free standing form of expression and an irreplaceable medium, submitting to its own set of functional laws, and possessing a completely different power of expression than that given to word and music, so that next to the verbal and tonal (expressions) the visual dimension also is employed again, so that the three levels of perception, word, picture and sound again will be recognized as a unified whole."