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An Art Professor’s Insights on What Brain Science Is Telling Us About Creativity, Imagination and Congregational Life

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Why are the arts and creativity so essential to deep learning? This workshop explores recent knowledge in brain science about how the arts affect our learning, our listening, our ability to understand and our ability to problem solve. What could this information mean for worship and our worship services? For community engagement and for meeting the stranger in our midst? 

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