Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Theodora Hawksley, and Hal Culbertson, eds. Peacebuilding and the Arts. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, xxii + 483 pp., £89.99 hardcover, £71.50 eBook. On March 16, 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, I tweeted…
Robert Covolo, Fashion Theology. Baylor University Press, 2020, 200 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). In an article published by Transpositions in 2010, Robert Covolo (Ph. D. VU Amsterdam / Ph. D. Fuller Theological Seminary) put forth the still-relevant observation that theologians—and Christians…
Editor’s Note: Dan Drage also interviewed Aaron Rosen, one of the curators of the Home Alone Together exhibition, about the origins and goals of the project. You may read their conversation here. ‘Together’ is a word which carries unusually poignant…
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was designed to follow the ‘Time and Again’ art exhibition. The dramatic performance was originally scheduled to…
Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this review, Kieran Gaya reviews the visual and literary component of Transept’s ‘Time and Again’ exhibition. In Part 2, he will review Karen McClain Kiefer’s ‘Time and Again: Playing it Back’ Playback Theatre performance…
My first opportunity to listen to Mary Vanhoozer’s Bard and Ceilidh in full came during an early morning drive from the Loch Lomond region (north of Glasgow) back to St Andrews on Scotland’s East coast. The landscape of rolling hills…
The year 2018 saw the publication of a book jointly written by David Brown and Gavin Hopps, The Extravagance of Music (London: Palgrave Macmilllan). It would be reasonable to expect that this book would receive a range of reviews, but…
Daniel Rattelle and Clinton Collister, eds. The Slumbering Host. Little Gidding Press, 2019, 105 pp. £7.63 (paperback). The world is not as it once was. Even now, it is changing. In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Passing of Arthur’, itself the…
David Brown and Gavin Hopps. The Extravagance of Music. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 352 pp. £64.99 (hardcover) / £59.99 (softcover). C. S. Lewis opens the preface to his little-known collection Rehabilitations and Other Essays by saying, ‘A man…