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Amy Lee
About This Session
“They are craftsmen, poets, scribes, creators of works of beauty far surpassing human artefacts,” Humphrey Carpenter wrote of Tolkien’s Elves. “Most important of all they are, unless slain in battle, immortal. Old age, disease, and death do not bring their work to an end while it is still unfinished or imperfect. They are therefore the ideal of every artist.” Immortality and perpetual wellbeing are not the inheritance of the children of Adam and Eve; the conditions surrounding our work and our art are often far from ideal. How, then, does the Artist Christian find the continual courage and fortitude to bring beauty forth in a broken world? In this session, Amy Lee will explore the sub-creator’s battle to hold -- and hold out -- a truthful and re-enchanted view of reality, framed in a personal journey through Middle-earth.
About This Speaker
Amy Baik Lee is a writer, erstwhile editor, and co-director of the Anselm Society Arts Guild. She is a contributor to Cultivating magazine and The Rabbit Room blog, and most of her words stem from wonder at the redemptive love of Christ and the piercing, reorienting grace of beauty. Ever seeking to “press on to [her] true country and to help others to do the same” (C. S. Lewis), she posts essays and stories about living Homeward at amybaiklee.com. She shares a house that hums with the sound of woodworking and lively read-alouds with her husband Yongwon and two daughters.