I am pleased to announce that Miriam Jones is the next featured artist on Transpositions. But not only is she a featured artist, Miriam is also performing for the next installment of our Forum event series. On February 15th from…
In an earlier post, I drew our attention to the recent increase in church commissioning of the arts within the UK. This renaissance of sorts led a British journalist to see the arts as a potential means of church revitalisation…
A review of Inclusive Yet Discerning: Navigating Worship Artfully by Frank Burch Brown (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009). In this book, Frank Burch Brown tackles an important issue in the conversation of theology and the arts, namely what art is ‘appropriate’…
Last Sunday I started a series with the youth in our community on the topic of discerning popular culture as Christians. They’re loving it. I’m excited but scared. The youth are loving it because they long to discuss and discover…
Along the lines of the Domestic Arts posts that have been featured all this week on Transpositions, here’s this week’s Tidbits. It’s been a really fun week and I hope it’s given you as much food for thought as it…
As many mothers who begin to ‘stay at home’, I struggled to define my role and justify my decision to cease employment. I know there are some women who chose to ‘stay home’ and never look back, but for me…
Last week, when I walked into the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective to meet Mary Ann Pettway, the manager of the collective, I was immediately greeted by a smiling woman stitching away at a large quilt, gospel music humming from the…
Call me a hopeless Romantic, but I won’t give up believing that humans are more than machines. Few cookbooks would reinforce my prejudice, but Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb does the job splendidly. Now, this is no ordinary…
Sounds, tastes, and smells have the ability to transform a moment into a kind of transportation device into our memories. We can be transported to places of warmth, hope, and consolation, as much as moments of disappointment and grief. I…