In a world that rushes to discard the broken, Makoto Fujimura reveals the beauty of mending. Drawing from the art of Kintsugi, he shares a powerful vision of culture, creativity, and resilience—where fractures become gold and brokenness leads to new wholeness. This is a call to behold, to create, and to reimagine the future with patience and grace.

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With the return of the ARC Conference this February, we are launching our first book — a work that encapsulates the values and ideas that shape ARC’s mission. The Best of Our Inheritance brings together fifteen of the sharpest minds of our time to make a bold case for remembering the values of our civilisation. From Barry Straussʼ account of the Classical Tradition, Ayaan Hirsi Aliʼs personal reflections on the values of the West and its Christian roots to Nigel Biggarʼs chapter on human dignity and Joseph Laconte’s call to the artists, reading this book will give you a tangible vision for civilisational renewal.

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Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been featured in galleries and museums around the world. He has also authored 4 books, Art+Faith: A Theology of Making, Silence and Beauty, Refractions, and Culture Care.

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00:00 - The Art of Kintsugi: Beauty in Brokenness
00:56 - Learning to Behold Before We Mend
02:32 - Fractures as a Path to Wholeness
05:38 - Slow Art and the Depth of Time
08:10 - Artists, Culture Wars, and the Search for Truth
12:36 - Healing Through Interdependence
15:56 - Tension, Harmony, and the Art of Living
18:22 - A Declaration of Interdependence

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