Art Life Faith Podcast
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August 31, 2025 • 42 mins
Hello and welcome to the Art Life Faith podcast. I'm your host, Roger Lowther.
Every year, we have interns come work alongside us in what God is doing here in Japan through the arts. This summer, one of our interns was a phenomenal dancer named Anna Gardner Herren, with a huge heart for missions around the world. This was her third summer with us here in Japan, and she also made trips to Taiwan and Korea.
Last August, I inter...
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July 15, 2025
Welcome to the Art Life Faith podcast, and I'm your host, Roger Lowther.
Well, before we get this episode’s interview, I want to share a couple of updates with you. A couple of weeks ago, we launched the Japanese edition of Third Culture Kids, which is designed to help Japanese families living overseas with the challenges that come from raising kids in a foreign context. We know it's going to be a big help to a lot of people, an...
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June 10, 2025 • 27 mins
A lot has been happening since our last podcast, so let me catch you up a bit. First, our church, Grace City Church Tokyo, celebrated its 15th anniversary this past Sunday on Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025. We started weekly worship exactly 15 years ago, and it's been quite a journey since, which became real to all of us watching the presentation we made of pictures over the years and seeing my own children as little kids. Two of t...
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April 6, 2025 • 32 mins
This episode, I have the privilege of talking with Mike Nawrocki, co-creator of VeggieTales and the beloved voice of Larry the Cucumber.
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March 3, 2025 • 41 mins
This is the third in a series of conversations I've shared with you from Lausanne Congress 4, which took place September 22–28, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Because it was the 50th anniversary of the Lausanne Movement, it was the largest gathering yet, with over 5,000 people in person and another 2,000 online, plus over 200 nations were represented. I had so many amazing conversations. I'm so glad that through these three episodes, ...
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December 26, 2024 • 28 mins
I'd like to continue in this episode what we began in the last, reflecting on the Lausanne Fourth Congress that happened at the end of September 2024, which I had the honor of attending. These events don't happen very often. The previous one was in 2010, 14 years ago. This one was by far the biggest, with 5,000 people from over 200 nations, and I'm still trying to process all the material that was there and all the relationships an...
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November 19, 2024 • 25 mins
In September, I had the honor of attending the 4th Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism in Seoul or Incheon, South Korea. The Lausanne movement celebrated its 50th anniversary with 5,000 people from over 200 nations. ...
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August 16, 2024 • 55 mins
Are you a college student? If you are, have you ever considered doing an internship somewhere in the world with a missions team? In this episode, we're going to talk a little bit with two interns who spent some time with us this summer. Internships are a great way to see what God is doing around the world. ...
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June 22, 2024 • 11 mins
My family and I live on an island that's part of the reclaimed land of Tokyo Bay. It's at the mouth of the Sumida River, which flows down from the heart of Tokyo. And this is a very interesting place, one reason why we chose to live here. ...
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June 3, 2024
When you walk out of an airport and enter a country that's foreign to you for the first time, one of the things you might notice is the different smell in the air. And, you know, often these differences come from the food. Food is so closely tied to the identity of a nation which plants you in that place. And cultures are practically defined by their food. Think of spaghetti: Italy. Fish and chips? England. Tacos? Mexico. Curry? In...
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May 25, 2024
Well, it's here! The day has finally come. The launch of my next book “A Taste of Grace” is right around the corner, coming this Monday, May 27, on Memorial Day Weekend. I'm so excited to finally be able to share this book with all of you. ...
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Just the other day we hosted a Zoom call for our friend Satomi Suzuki to help raise money for her upcoming artist residency. She’s a visual artist and a writer here in Tokyo, but she’s about to head to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. And so in advance of her departure, I asked if she wouldn’t be willing to have a conversation with us.
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March 1, 2024
Here is a brief report from our relief trip to Ishikawa Prefecture last weekend, responding to the needs from that enormous 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the region on January 1, 2024. My church, Grace City Church Tokyo, sent a youth team of 3 adults and 7 junior high, high school, and college students. ...
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February 18, 2024
This episode, I want to share some stories from Christmas concerts in Fukushima. Yes, that Fukushima, the second-only-to-Chernobyl-nuclear-meltdown-disaster-of-epic-proportions Fukushima. We were invited to that area to give some Christmas concerts.
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January 24, 2024
Many of you have been writing me about this earthquake that hit Japan just a couple of weeks ago on January 1st. What a way to begin the new year! As you know, it was a pretty big one. I was in Nagano, not far from the epicenter. The ground was jolting so hard that it was impossible to walk. ...
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January 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Welcome back to the Art, Life, Faith Podcast, and I’m your host Roger Lowther. This really has been fun for me, sharing conversations in the past two episodes recorded at the GCAMM Conference, the Global Consultation on Arts and Music in Missions, as it helps me remember what I learned and also the people I befriended there. In this third and last episode, let’s do this just one more time, and continue to travel from table to table...
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December 13, 2023 • 25 mins
I’m excited to continue our discussion from the last episode, giving a little peek into some of the conversations and relationships that were happening at the GCAMM Conference this past September in Ft. Worth, Texas, the Global Consultation on Arts and Music in Missions. Let’s pick up where I left off last time and continue to mosey on through the cafeteria with mic in hand while everyone is eating their lunch and just see who else...
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November 25, 2023 • 23 mins
This episode, I am honored to introduce you to some of the people I met at the GCAMM Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, the Global Consultation on Arts and Music in Missions. It took place September 11-14, 2023 at Southwestern Baptist University.
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September 7, 2023
This is our 50th podcast episode. Woo hoo! Happy birthday, Art Life Faith Podcast! I can't believe we've done this 50 times now. I'm so grateful for all of you who've come along with us on this journey and who've supported this podcast in so many ways, by continuing to listen, by giving it five-star ratings, and leaving your reviews. We've had 5,000 downloads so far since we first started three years ago in the height of the pandem...
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August 24, 2023 • 25 mins
"This is the place I go for church. And this is the place that I go to hang out with my friends. And this is the space that I might go for some artistic event or some cultural event. But I really believe that we're made to be holistic humans. We're wearing all these different hats, and we're going to all these different spaces. And at the same time, we're like, “Why can't it all be brought together? Why can't it all be holistic the...
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