Why I don’t just read “Christian” books
In my last post, I asked whether it is profitable for us as readers and authors to use the label “Christian” to describe certain…
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Performing the Sacred: A Review
Todd E. Johnson and Dale Savidge, Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), £12.99/$21.99, ISBN 080102952X. Looking for…
Read MoreMaking and Meaning
What is the relationship between an artist’s creative practice and the meaning of a work of art? There is a long tradition in Western society…
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Featured Artist: Tom Graffagnino
For these featured artist posts I normally try to produce a few words that introduce and throw some light on the artist’s work. Today,…
Read MoreThe Fashionable Suspicion of Fashion
Giles Lipovetsky has observed that, “The question of fashion is not a fashionable one among intellectuals.” The dearth of anything close to a theological…
Read MoreThe Religious (and “Local”?) Imagination—or, How we Obey Christ’s Second Command
Over the past several years, talk of the “religious imagination” has become much more popular among theological circles, especially those particularly interested in theology…
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Word Pictures: A Review
Brian Godawa. Word Pictures: Knowing God through Story and Imagination. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999. Pp. 208. $16.00/£9.99. Word Pictures is an extended reflection…
Read MoreThe Turner Prize and the Internal Image
‘They [Angus and his dog, Cyril] had now come up to the traffic lights at the Open Eye Gallery, and this was the signal…
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Church Beyond the Fourth Wall
The playwright and director Peter Brook once stated: “The only thing that all forms of theatre have in common is the need for an…
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