‘Now cracks a noble heart’: Hamlet and Political Hope
When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans,…
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Dance and Christianity
David Brown has written, ‘Dance’s continuing engagement with the divine stands as a silent reprimand to the Church for so arbitrarily narrowing its own…
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Faithful Imagination in Theatre: What We Can Learn from C.S. Lewis
Quality theatre presented from a Christian perspective is hard to find. It exists in small pockets, such as Lamb’s Players Theater in San Diego,…
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“We’re All Here”: Responding to Trauma Through Art
On the 13th of November people all over Paris were making plans for their weekend. They finished their day’s work, they began their commutes…
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Transformations and Turnarounds: The Role of the Arts in Human Flourishing
The arts are transformative. For many people involved in exploring the intersection of theology and the arts, this is a fundamental axiom. It’s also…
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Mike Daisey’s False Witness
Mike Daisey, the truth-stretching monologist, has apologized for fabricating evidence about Foxconn, the Apple manufactory in Shenzhen, China, and has changed the script of…
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A Thesis on the Theatrical Turn in Christian Thought and Practice [Part Two]
Wes Vander Lugt’s thesis on the ‘theatrical turn’ in Christianity concludes below. To restate his thesis in full: Christian existence is a dialogical, divine…
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A Thesis on the Theatrical Turn in Christian Thought and Practice [Part One]
Due to circumstances outside our control, Josh Edelman’s post has been moved to Saturday. Today, please enjoy Part One of Wes Vander Lugt’s A Thesis…
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‘The Holy Amidst the Mundane’: The Practice of Christian Liturgical Drama
Since 2011, we have created and implemented original theatre pieces (sometimes scripted, sometimes improvisational) into ecumenical Christian worship at Yale Divinity School. Rather than…
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