Achtung Baby: How to Live in an Age of Distraction
When a monk asks you a question, it’s generally wise to listen. I learned this lesson on my annual silent retreat at the monastery…
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Earthed To The Unearthly: Two New Poems
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is delighted to offer two unpublished sonnets by our friend and supporter, the poet and author, Malcolm Guite, who has just…
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Theology of Technology: Apple’s ‘I’
Proposition: all of life is doxological response and everything to which we put our hands reflects our beliefs. And Apple products are no different….
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The Virtual Iconostasis
Fifteen years into the 21st century, the once definitive line between screen and world, both topographically and ontologically, is rapidly diffusing. Legitimate virtual reality—something…
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Picture Perfect
“I need—no, I have the right—to be unlimited.” This curious claim comes from a recent Sprint commercial for the iPhone 5. The title: “I…
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Getting Groovy: The Return of Analog
There’s a trend afoot. More and more millennials, among others, are opting to listen to their music the old-fashioned way: on cassettes and on…
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Lent, Facebook and Desire
Are you giving up Facebook for Lent? Lots of people are doing it. In a 2012 survey published on Christianity Today and generated using Twitter,…
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Wait, Don’t Tell Me…I Already Know
As the line between technology and magic continues to blur, there is, perhaps, no place more colorfully entertaining in which to experience this blurring than Walt…
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Present and accounted for?
Last week the BBC reported on an experimental venture of the European Commission called ‘beaming’.[1] The idea is this: given the time, expense, and…
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