Expressive Arts
Neither of my parents were religious people, but they did instill in me an aesthetic appreciation through regular visits to museums and cathedrals and listening to great classical music. My aesthetic sense was cultivated long before my spiritual sense, of course, now I realize that my spirituality was being shaped through my love of beauty. So when I did make a formal commitment to a faith tradition, the two things that captivated me were the aesthetic and justice dimensions. While working at a Catholic high school in Sacramento as a religion teacher and campus minister in 1994, part of my