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2025 Meekhof Lecture: Exploring Art and Faith with Scott Erickson

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2025 Meekhof Lecture: Exploring Art and Faith with Scott Erickson


  • Newport Presbyterian Church 4010 120th Avenue Southeast Bellevue, WA, 98006 United States (map)

Meekhof Lecture 2025: Exploring Art and Faith with Scott Erickson

Want to make more money? Looking to lose weight? Searching for the perfect balance between work and rest? Well, we can’t help with that, but we can offer a space to make art and talk about how to make meaning in the chaos of life right now.

In Scott’s words, the creative practice, or any practice, whether physical, spiritual, or mental, is not so much about accomplishing something as much as it is keeping the Fire of Life alive in oneself.

Your fire can go out. The drenching malaise of binge-worthy television, destructive news narratives, and body-shaming advertising will slowly weigh you down over time. Wonder, curiosity, imagination, risking, doing, trying, being...these are the warm flames of Life in the coldest of seasons.

Scott Erickson is a dynamic and energetic speaker who uses humor, honesty, and art to help us all connect with ourselves and the Divine. Scott is full of ideas to motivate us to see things in fresh ways, stretch ourselves to try new things, inspire creative ways of thinking, and fill us with hope that we can co-create a better future.

This is the spirit we hope to explore together in this year’s community lecture. Let’s talk about navigating meaningfulness and meaninglessness. Let’s talk about turning our pain into something. Let’s talk about finding our spark. Let’s talk about how we are constructing our everyday liturgies. Have we piqued your curiosity? Register now to join us in January for Newport’s Annual Meekhof Lecture with Scott Erickson.

Friday Afternoon, January 24, 3-5pm: Scott will lead us in a time of creativity and community. As we engage an art project together, we’ll also talk about how the creative process helps us in problem solving and working through struggles. You won’t want to miss this fun and engaging afternoon!

Saturday Morning, January 25, 10am: For the keynote, combining art and storytelling, humor, healing, and community, Scott is going to talk about harmonizing polarities. We each have unique experiences of both the sacred and the chaotic, and can recognize the benefits and limitations of both. However, when our traumas, fears, and ignorance push us to live at one extreme or the other we risk losing the beauty and nuance that exists beyond the false binary.