Hymns From the Gathering Church
More than a year ago the Gathering Church embarked on a creative musical project. Having dabbled in recorded music (a completed Advent EP used…
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A Theology of Song
The availability of recorded music has rendered music and song so ubiquitous that the intrinsically ephemeral nature of this art form, considered by Etienne Gilson…
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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part II)
In Part I, I suggested that words like ‘create,’ ‘creation’ and ‘creativity’ are dead metaphors because a robust theology of creation is no longer ‘mapped…
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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part I)
We are living in a time when many clergy and lay professionals are calling upon Christians to be creative. This quote from Andy Crouch’s…
Read MoreA Bunch of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Revelation
‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’ These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at…
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Tribeca Arts Project: Artistic Collaboration bringing Transformation
To conclude Art and Mission week, Transpositions interviewed ITIA PhD candidate, Tanya Walker, and asked her about the New York City Tribeca Arts Project…
Read MoreArts and Ministry – Process over Product?
For a number of years I have been involved in ministering to people in what are commonly known as ‘creative access’ countries. In other…
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Introducing a Week on Art and Mission
The arts have often found an uneasy place in the area of mission. When so many issues are at stake in mission work, how…
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Sacred Street Art and the Soul of a Community
Street art and the sacred might seem like an odd pairing at first blush. But for Artist and Methodist minister Ric Stott the act…
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