The Voice of a Generation, or How “Girls” Helps the Church See
The HBO comedy-drama Girls, the brainchild of Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow, is an awards darling. Its freshman series received both the Golden Globe…
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And the Foolish to Confound the Wise: A Christmas Reflection
I have a small nativity set on my nightstand that my parents sent me from the States to remind me of home. Mary and…
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Performative Hermeneutics: Considering “Biblical Womanhood”
In his review of Rachel Held Evans’ recent and somewhat controversial book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting…
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The Avengers’ Accidental Icon
Last May, two of my best friends and I went to see The Avengers at the cinema near our university. I should disclose from…
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Nakedness Does Not Unchristian Make
Transpositions is pleased to announce that Preston Yancey has now joined our rotation of regular contributors. Welcome, Preston! Author’s Note: This article contains spoilers for…
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Censer, Crucifix, Candlestick: The Icon Trinity in the Mass
Popular history in Protestant circles has often reimagined the medieval church as suffering from severe illiteracy in lay Christians. Images of Bibles chained to…
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Our Lady of Contrived Spectacle
It was Henry Hart Milman who evaluated Christendom in the post-Constantine era thusly: “As Christianity worked downwards into lower levels of society […] the…
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Brush Stroked Incense: How Painting and Monks Taught Me to Pray
Preston Yancey, an incoming MLitt student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, offers a meditation on how the discipline of the Divine Office deepened his experience of painting as prayer.
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