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Deconstruction has become a widespread trend in modern spirituality. Many people are walking away from the faith they grew up in. What if they are not actually rejecting God, but rather a fragile caricature that was never meant to survive in a real-world context? This seminar analyzes the deconstruction process by identifying the specific "false gods" and intellectual barriers that cause a childhood faith to crumble.

Films speak truth-claims about reality and morality, but what are nihilistic, award-winning movies saying? From No Man’s Land on the Bosnian/Serbian war, to Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s film about a planet colliding with Earth, to Everything Everywhere All At Once, regarding an Asian-American family in the multiverse, and more films, we examine nihilistic views experienced in cinema. From these films, we learn and discuss evangelistic and pastoral ways for ministering to people struggling and hungering for meaning.

Church is designed to be a beautiful community of Christ-centred love where those inside the church are helped to persevere and grow, and those outside are shown the goodness of God. But how do we help our churches become those communities of transformational love? Through praying, teaching, role-modelling, and serving, we each have a role to play. In this session, we encourage each other to be intentional about caring for one another well.

As artists, we know the tension of living between vision and reality — the dream that stirs our heart and the pit that tests it. In this session, we explore the creative life through the lens of a biblical dreamer whose imagination was both a gift and a burden. Together, we uncover what it means to stay spiritually alive when circumstances and waiting stretch us thin.