Chapel Talk, 2003 March 30: War and Creativity / Will Speers

This talk focuses on the United States entry into the Iraqi War and the creative spirit in the face of wartime crisis. "Music, art, dance and applause won’t stop the killing and the madness, but creation endures long after the swords and the guns have fallen. It lasts as a monument to our thirst to know and imagine and hope and survive. Our songs are incantations, requiems of our grief and losses and questions. To sing the despair, or to paint the maelstrom, transforms the darkness into healing and light. To dare to create becomes a spiritual confirmation of how God molded what was without form into firmaments of Heaven and Earth."