Along the lines of the Domestic Arts posts that have been featured all this week on Transpositions, here’s this week’s Tidbits. It’s been a really fun week and I hope it’s given you as much food for thought as it…
Sounds, tastes, and smells have the ability to transform a moment into a kind of transportation device into our memories. We can be transported to places of warmth, hope, and consolation, as much as moments of disappointment and grief. I…
Elsa Dorfman has a poignant series of photographs. Photographs that inspire and challenge. Photographs of people who know they are dying soon. Elsa Dorfman has been able to do something I cannot: capture in photographic medium what it means to…
We’re all in the midst of preparing for Christmas and it’s taken us to the ends of the earth. Literally. Today, we are in 3 different countries on as many continents in both the northern and southern hemispheres. So, the…
In the liturgical calendar, this time of year is known as Advent. We’ve written about this season a little over the last couple of weeks, but I wanted to explore two senses of Advent in this post. Firstly, I will…
Occasionally we’re going to devote a Transpositions Tidbits to a specific topic aiming to provide some links to sites, blogs and resources as a window into exploring theology, imagination and the arts in a particular sub-discipline. There’s lots of challenges…
The United Kingdom has seen a number of protests over the last few weeks about the proposed cuts to higher education and increases in tuition fees. Some of the protests have resulted in violence. This post is not about those…
This Tidbits is partly organised thematically offering links and resources on the topics of “The place of the artist,” Food and Theology, and the Church and Social Media. But that’s not all. Before we dive into links on those topics,…
God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, Live. – Gerard Manley Hopkins The holiday that has memorialized both the event and the spirit of that thanksgiving meal of…