Creation, Community and Knitting
In a world of separation, where we don’t know where our food comes from or how any product really gets to us, who made it, or how it is made, it is the solid and earthy things that bring us…
A journal of theology, imagination, and the arts.
Featured Artist: Cosette Cornelius-Bates
Cosette Cornelius-Bates (aka Cosy) is a fiber artist who describes her work as “an attempt to speak eloquently on behalf of all things wool.” She has a background in the fine arts, and she completed an MCS at Regent College…
Next Week: Transpositions Goes Domestic!
All next week, here at Transpositions we will be celebrating the domestic crafts. Home, crafts, and domesticity are important elements of our everyday lives that are in desperate need of some theological reflection. We have explored this topic a little bit,…
The Irony of Minimalism
A few months ago at the Design Museum in London, the English designer John Pawson opened his exhibit Plain Space attempting to display a sort of collective anthology of minimalist art and design. He is a rather controversial artist for…
Is Church Life Stifling Your Creativity? A Response
On 5 January 2011, Donald Miller (of Blue Like Jazz fame) wrote a blog post titled ‘Is Church Life Stifling Your Creativity?‘. In the post, he suggests that Solomon’s Song of Songs, if written in today’s church context (evangelical context…
Art, Discipleship, and Paying Attention
Both art and discipleship depend on paying attention. I cannot speak for all artists, but I have dabbled in instrumental and choral music, theatre, poetry and prose, and in all these artistic activities, paying attention is paramount. Take acting on…
Reflections on the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
As a student working on a doctorate in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) at St. Andrews University, I am sometimes asked to describe – and sometimes defend – the purpose of the programme, often against claims…
The Art of Dying
Elsa Dorfman has a poignant series of photographs. Photographs that inspire and challenge. Photographs of people who know they are dying soon. Elsa Dorfman has been able to do something I cannot: capture in photographic medium what it means to…
Art as a Theological Text: 3 Approaches
Is it possible to read a work of art (whether it be a painting, a song, a dance, a comic book, etc.) as a theological text? What is meant here by “theological text”? And how, exactly, does one “read” a…