An Audition I Passed Up
INT: Home Office Lukas sits at his desk in front of a computer. He just received an audition for a popular crime drama. He is reading the sides, the scene pulled from the script for the audition, that his manager…
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Should Movies Be Used as Evangelism Tracts?
Some Christians say that if Jesus were here today, he would use films as he used stories. At first glance, this sounds perfect. However, this perspective is flawed, especially when films are used as contemporary tracts for Christian evangelism. One of…
Cardiphonia: Songs for Pentecost
Last fall Cardiphonia sponsored the first of what will be a series of song collections focused around gospel themes for congregational song. This week they are releasing a second collection of songs for Pentecost Sunday. The songs are drawn from a collection…
Working in Babylon Media
The last few years have seen an explosion of Christians trying to engage with culture, to enjoy it, understand it and work out how to respond to it. The term ‘worldview’ has never been more used that in the last…
Popular Music and Theology: Strange Bedfellows?
As a child of a particular strand of American Protestantism, I was warned from an early age to be weary of this world and its offerings. “All that glitters is not gold”. Essentially, there were a great many “beautiful” things…
Revealing the Line
An architect’s goal is to reveal unique aspects of life through the design of buildings. His work/joy is to integrate depth into a project on many layers, measurable and immeasurable. So what does reveal mean? As a verb, it is…
A Primer on Print Design for the Church
I’m passionate about a few things. For instance, the billowing thunderstorms that roll over the prairie I grew up on. I can talk about architecture all day long. Topping the list is how the Church interacts — or doesn’t, as…
Introducing Commercial Arts Fortnight
Over the next two weeks, Transpositions will be devoting its posts to the Commercial Arts, raising questions and exploring theological issues embedded within the fields of graphic design, music, architecture, film, acting, script-writing, and branding. Together with several guest contributors,…
Featured Artist: Matt Pearson
Over the next two weeks, Transpositions is hosting a symposium on the commercial arts. In light of this, we have chosen one of our contributors to the symposium to be our featured artist. Matt Pearson is an architect working in…