[EDITOR’S NOTE: This final instalment of our ten-year anniversary series is published in a new year. We have turned the corner from the past decade and the tumultuous year that was 2020. Looking back and also ahead, current Transpositions editors…
Immanuel The stars shone down on a woman As she wearily marched in the way, A baby inside her weighted her steps When she went to lie down by the hay. The pain of the labor was starting As…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, from Transept author Alicia Pollard, is an imaginative supposal on the order of C S Lewis’s The Great Divorce. It was inspired by works such as Lewis’s ‘The Turn of the Tide‘, John Milton’s ‘On the…
Writer and director Martin McDonagh’s newest film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, proved to be a critical success after being nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning two. Given its southern setting, its violence, and an explicit nod to Flannery…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a three-part review. Philip Ryken. The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth: Images of Christ’s Threefold Office in the Lord of the Rings. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2017, xiii +136pp., $16.00/ Over the…
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part review (see the first part here) God in dangerous territory: Interview with Rachel Mann, author of Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God. It is interesting to consider the idea…
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part review. God in dangerous territory: Interview with Rachel Mann, author of Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God (DLT, 2017). I first had the pleasure of meeting…
The eclipse in Ronald Knox’s fortunes after his death contrasts starkly with the recognition that he had enjoyed in his lifetime as writer, classicist, journalist, broadcaster, preacher and translator. Many contemporaries and fellow writers had praised his works. Among them…
Life writing in a postsecular age is complicated business, just ask Stanley Hauerwas. Few life writings in recent years have stirred as much interest among North American Christians as the publication of Hauerwas’ Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir (2010). Yet,…