Learning How to Transpose: How the Arts Inform Christianity
One of the reasons for naming this blog Transpositions is that all of us are interested in creative transpositions between the arts and Christianity,…
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The Difficult Path of Discernment
Last Sunday I started a series with the youth in our community on the topic of discerning popular culture as Christians. They’re loving it….
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Art, Discipleship, and Paying Attention
Both art and discipleship depend on paying attention. I cannot speak for all artists, but I have dabbled in instrumental and choral music, theatre,…
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Staging the Incarnation
If Shakespeare was right that all the world’s a stage and we are all actors performing particular roles, then what exactly is the drama…
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The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: A Review
Christine C. Schnusenberg, The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: The Eucharist as Theater (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2010). “In the beginning there was theater.”…
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Giving Thanks through Music: Over the Rhine
Through music, humans express and explore every possible area of emotion and experience. For example, we use music to mourn, celebrate, muse, rage, despair,…
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Why Dance?
I love to dance. My experience as a dancer began as a child in an American family with strong ties to our Dutch heritage….
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If Scripture Is Not a Script, Then What Is It?
Among Christian theologians and ethicists who utilise theatrical metaphors and models, it is common to assign to Scripture the role of script. If life…
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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…
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