Robert MacMillan is a contemporary Scottish artist who is well known for his landscape and figure painting (primarily portraits). Thematically, much of his work explores the relationship between light and dark, clarity and obfuscation. His clean and crisp technique is…
Those of us at Transpositions would like to wish you a merry Christmas and joyous new year! The blog will be taking a break for the holidays and will return with our next posting on Monday, 3 January 2011. We…
“God from God, Light from Light… came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.” (from the Nicene Creed) Christmas is a time to celebrate the Incarnate…
In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Rosetti (1872) In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.…
We’re all in the midst of preparing for Christmas and it’s taken us to the ends of the earth. Literally. Today, we are in 3 different countries on as many continents in both the northern and southern hemispheres. So, the…
If Shakespeare was right that all the world’s a stage and we are all actors performing particular roles, then what exactly is the drama in which we are performing, and what part do we have to play? As one might…
All the world is a stage and there is much revelry upon it. As a remedy to Charlie Brown’s existential crisis about Christmas, he is invited to join in the Christmas revelry. Accompanied by Vince Guaraldi’s playful yet somewhat melancholy…
It’s 1965. Don Draper, the man in the grey-flannel suit, is somewhere out there in the midst of full existential crisis. Twenty years after World War Two, America’s victory culture has run stale. The hope and promise for a new…
In the liturgical calendar, this time of year is known as Advent. We’ve written about this season a little over the last couple of weeks, but I wanted to explore two senses of Advent in this post. Firstly, I will…