‘Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter – leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of…
Describing the ‘co-creative’ process of the 7 DAYS installation, Carol Marples considers how the natural environment can shape our experience of art, creation and the sacred. Can seven fraying, dirty, decaying pieces of fabric be seen as sacred art and lead to…
For over a decade Transpositions has been a catalyst for conversations about theology, the arts and the connection between them. Previously, as an associate editor, I have had the privilege of working with authors and editors who value this conversation and who…
Editor-in-chief Ewan Bowlby bids farewell to Transpositions readers. Most endings are also beginnings. As my time working with Transpositions draws to a close, the sadness I feel is tempered by an awareness of the promise that the future holds for this unique online journal.…
Caroline Collins makes a passionate, forceful case for revisiting Ewing and Grady’s documentary film Jesus Camp in light of recent political developments. ‘God hears the cries of children. It makes me want to cry’.1 Pentecostal children’s minister, Becky Fischer, chokes back tears while reviewing…
This interview with the artists behind the exciting PUSH PUSH exhibition in Dundee continues our series exploring the ‘art of poverty’. The PUSH PUSH exhibition in the Federation Gallery, Dundee was an exhibition by three artists, Flannery O’Kafka, Owen Daily and David McCulloch (Cully). It was a response…
Cody Warta’s thought-provoking reminder of ‘the need to worship lavishly’ continues our timely series on the ‘art of poverty’. I was raised in the Nazarene church, where the first Sunday of the month is Alabaster Sunday. For those who are…
Parker Haratine’s powerful article explains how art can draw our attention to ‘fallenness and finitude’, revealing the ‘experience and reality of poverty’, for the next piece in our series on ‘the art of poverty’. Whether we ask a theologian or…
The Rt Rev Dr Peter Selby uses Giotto’s art in the Scrovegni Chapel as a lens to examine economic inequality and the causes of poverty, continuing our timely series on the “Art of Poverty”. If artistic representations of poverty are…