The Still Small Voice Project
Issue #0 | June 2025
Welcome to The Still Small Voice Project, a creative arts collaboration that listens for the quieter ways God is at work in the world.
“And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.”
—1 Kings 19:12 (KJV)
The Still Small Voice Project is a creative collective born of a growing unease with the distortion of the Gospel, the rise of fear-driven faith, and the misuse of power against the vulnerable. In response, it seeks not noise or outrage but a faithful resistance rooted in beauty, truth, and mercy. Shaped by the spirit of the Beatitudes, this emerging digital sanctuary will gather artists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers to call the Church back to the heart of discipleship: the friendship of Jesus, the quiet power of mercy, and a prophetic, countercultural witness. It is a space for art, prayer, and reflection, resisting the false gospels of dominance and exclusion through a theology of tenderness and hope.
Why You Might Want to Read This
· You are spiritually over-saturated by noise, urgency, and religious performance, and long for forms of reflection that are unhurried, non-coercive, and quietly faithful.
· You are an artist or theologian disillusioned by instrumentalisation, seeking a space where creation is not output but offering; where theology is not argument but attunement.
· You are seeking a theological vision shaped not by dominance or clarity, but by lives marked by vulnerability, complexity, and grace—where insight emerges through shared fragility, not exceptional voice.
· You hunger for a slow theology—one that privileges listening over pronouncing, presence over platform, and the poetics of the Beatitudes over the politics of control.
· You need an artistic interruption in your digital and affective lives: not another newsletter, but a chapel-without-walls—made of poetry, image, sound, silence, and fragile communal gestures.
· You are an artist or theologian disillusioned by instrumentalisation, seeking a space where creation is not output but offering; where theology is not argument but attunement.
What Is It?
The Still Small Voice Project is a collective of artists, theologians, and those committed to a more just and gentle world. Through poetry, visual art, music, soundscape, film, liturgy, and reflective writing, the project fosters creative practice shaped by the Beatitudes and the subtle voice of God. In a world that loves noise, glory, competitiveness, and spectacle, The Still Small Voice Project paints, draws, sings, and speaks of new ways of being in the world, based on the Beatitudes and the friendships of Jesus. The SSVP recognises that the arts can bring new life to our violent world. Through the Beatitudes, we can see the world differently. Through the arts, we can view the world in a different light. The project is not about illustrating doctrine. It is about inhabiting a different way of being, one marked by slowness, attention, gentleness, humility, beauty, lament, and peace. The project is open for everyone, especially the voices of those historically marginalised in the church and society. Artists with lived experience of disability, neurodivergence, and mental distress are integral to its imagination. Together, we want to create and reflect on beautiful things. We seek to make the blessings Jesus names visible, audible, and liveable. Maybe together we can sing, write, draw, talk and dance our way towards peace.
Why Does This Matter?
We are being discipled by platforms.
Our spiritual formation now takes place in environments shaped by algorithms, amplification, and applause. In church, branding replaces discernment. In culture, spectacle masquerades as truth. Even prayer and testimony are co-opted by economies of performance. Instagram, TikTok, Twitter—these do not merely reflect us; they shape our very sense of value. Faith has become a kind of performance, measured by metrics rather than depth. We mistake volume for virtue, visibility for meaning. But what if God is doing something else entirely? What if divine presence is not found in the fire or the thunder, but in obscurity, in softness, in the quiet? What if God is initiating a gentle revolution, not through dominance or acclaim, but through tenderness, humility, and love? Perhaps our art can help people see these tiny shoots that are changing the world one heart at a time.
This project begins in the cave with Elijah and finds its shape in this beatific vision.
Who This Is For
The Still Small Voice Project is for anyone who wants to slow down and make time for the things that the world often assumes are trivial. It is for artists who want to do art in the spirit of the Beatitudes. It is for people who just want to rest, listen, sing, and pray. It is for Christians inside and outside traditional structures. For those who carry faith with confidence, and for those who carry it with uncertainty. For thinkers, dreamers, doubters, and returners. It is especially for those who have not found a home in louder forms of Christian expression, but who still long for grace, truth, and beauty.
What Will We Do?
We will gather creative and theological reflections inspired by the Beatitudes and the still, small voice. Through artwork, liturgies, songs, prayers, interviews, meditations, and essays, we will explore how God might be calling us, not to louder witness, but to more faithful presence.
We invite you to listen, respond, create, reflect, and share.
Featured Artist:
Terrell Wilson, Brittney Spencer, Micah Massey, Aaron Keyes.
The Kingdom is Yours
Common Hymnal
“In a dog-eat-dog world, where only the strongest survive; where your brother may betray you in order to climb the next ring of the ‘corporate ladder,’ where loneliness threatens to be your closest friend, where abuse seems routine, and hope sounds like a fairy tail, Jesus speaks. He says his kingdom is at hand. He invites us in. It’s a place where the poor forever reign, where the pure finally win, where the peacemakers can rest, and where the persecuted rejoice. ’The Kingdom is Yours’ is a song of hope for those living in the tension of these two realities. It’s a reminder of what is to come.” (Micah Massey)
Listen and Reflect
Click on the link for the artist. Allow yourself to settle for a moment and let the words and the music of this song open up your heart to the world of the Beatitudes - The world as it really is.
What if God is doing something big and most of us don’t seems to be noticing?
God is calling you into the world of the Beatitudes.
Blessed are those who care.
Think Differently, Live Differently
Take Action
• Where are the poor and the broken in your life? Who are they? Maybe it's you? Call someone today.
• Write down the names of three people whose presence has helped you feel seen or held, not because of what you achieved, but simply because you existed. Send one of them a message of gratitude.
• Make something intentionally unshareable—a sketch, a phrase, a prayer, a sound. Let it be a hidden offering. Let it teach you what it means to make art that does not need an audience.
Life Prompt
• Choose one hour this week to unplug from all digital media. Use that time not to be productive, but simply to attend to a small beauty, a gentle word, a still small voice.
Coming Soon
• Issue #1: *Blessed Are Those Who Mourn*
• Featured Art | Meditative Soundscapes | Creative Prompts | Community Stories
With gentleness and hope,
The Still Small Voice Team
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