Make a whistle from my throat: Giving voice to the voiceless
Make a whistle from my throat I do not know what will happen after I die. I do not want to know. But I…
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Plastic Flowers and Paving: The Aesthetics of Surburbia
Surburbia has never appealed to me. Until ten years ago, I had almost always lived in places where we couldn’t even see our neighbours,…
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The Possibility of Art in Ordinary Moments
We photograph ourselves, our families and the details of our lives with a kind of frequency unknown through human history. Photographic capturing techniques are…
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Sacred Street Art and the Soul of a Community
Street art and the sacred might seem like an odd pairing at first blush. But for Artist and Methodist minister Ric Stott the act…
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Art of Collaboration (part I): an apologia for collaboration in theology and the arts.
This is the first post in a two part post collaboratively written by Jenn Craft and Anna Blanch. Part II, titled, “Practical considerations when…
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E. Nesbit as Fantasy God-Mother
For many readers – H.G. Wells and Laurence Houseman, G.K. Chesterton and Noel Coward – for these and thousands more, the most magical stories…
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Ambivalent Anticipation: Advent
This is the first week of a new year; the new liturgical year, that is. But in the face of the end of civic calendar…
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Review: The Liturgical Year
Joan Chittister, Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life, Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 2009. The Liturgical Year is part of the The Ancient Practices Series from…
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E.Nesbit and her Child Readers
Seamus Heaney’s “The Railway Children” from his 1984 collection Station Island, offers an almost ekphrastic response to E. Nesbit’s classic British children’s story, The…
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