What is the perfect Christmas album? Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown’s Christmas? Bing Crosby’s White Christmas? Or (maybe) the Christmas album pictured on the right? This is a foolish question if by it we mean the Christmas album that is…
There was so much excitement over our post about Ordinary Time’s Christmas album In the Town of David that I wanted to share some more really fantastic Christmas music. Over the Rhine is well known for many of their 17…
If you liked Ordinary Time’s In the Town of David, you are going to love this. Noonday Films (another of our featured artists) has put together a music video featuring Ordinary Time’s song “Come To Us, Emmanuel.” The music video…
Real Presence: In Search of the Earliest Icons, by Sister Wendy Beckett, (Continuum, 2010) 138 pages, £12.99. Reviewed by James McCullough. “Some time ago, to my astonishment, I discovered the eight icons of the Virgin that have survived from the…
‘Culture often takes the role of religion in our contemporary world. Galleries are modern-day temples, regularly attended by the people on their day of rest. Exhibitions are discussed with almost evangelical fervour. Art has become a cult. It is there…
Occasionally we’re going to devote a Transpositions Tidbits to a specific topic aiming to provide some links to sites, blogs and resources as a window into exploring theology, imagination and the arts in a particular sub-discipline. There’s lots of challenges…
James McCullough is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews. His research explores the relationship between works of visual art and spiritual formation. Jim lives on a farm near St Andrews with his wife and four children.…
We are pleased to announce the next installment of The Forum event series. The title of our next event is “Can Artists Be Atheists? The Role of Religion in Art.” Our speaker will be David Robertson, Minister of St Peters, Dundee…
The United Kingdom has seen a number of protests over the last few weeks about the proposed cuts to higher education and increases in tuition fees. Some of the protests have resulted in violence. This post is not about those…