Weaving the Word
Weaving the Word was a creative project conceived by Rev Peter Gardner, Heidi Gardner and artist Carol Marples and funded by the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Bible Society. The task was to create an artwork for the Church…
A journal of theology, imagination, and the arts.
Translators and Kings
Throughout my own work of translation (The New Testament for Everyone, just out) I have had William Tyndale in mind. His story has often been told: on the run in a foreign land, in hiding, under pressure from rival Protestants…
Introduction: Symposium on the King James Bible
As I looked around my cottage-by-the-sea this week, I counted no less than five different English translations of the Bible with a German translation and Greek Interlinear thrown in for good measure. Those were just the hard copy versions. I’ve…
Featured Artist: David Mach
Typically, when Transpositions features an artist, we try to offer a few words regarding the artist’s work as a whole. In this case, however, we have chosen to feature David Mach because of his current exhibition at the Edinburgh Art…
Greenbelt Arts Festival: An Aesthetic and Religious Spectrum
Describing Greenbelt and its vast spectrum of acts, talks, moments of reflection and worship, musical and artistic spaces, meeting places, performances and comedy is a difficult proposition. Add in 5 nights of camping in the inner of Cheltenham race course…
Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part II): The Structural Imago Dei
In Part II, I consider those who identify the image of God with creativity as an aspect of the human being. What are the ethical implications of comparing divine and artistic creativity from this perspective?
Towards a Eucharistic Theatre
I’m currently on a month-long road trip around the Eastern half of the U.S., visiting members of religious orders who work in the professional theatre, as well as heads of professional theatres that are informed by a Christian vision but…
Featured Artist: Deborah Haynes
Deborah J. Haynes is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Besides working as an artist in stone and drawing, she is the author of four books: Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (Cambridge,…
Art and Sustainability
The National Gallery in London recently advertised that it partnered with General Electric to “grow the first living masterpiece.” Outside the museum in Trafalgar Square, it set up its real-life masterpiece—a landscape picture made out of real plants. No doubt,…