Christine C. Schnusenberg, The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: The Eucharist as Theater (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2010). “In the beginning there was theater.” As the last chapter title in the book, this phrase provides a fitting thesis for the…
As Frances Borzello observes in her wonderful book At Home: The Domestic Interior in Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 2006), domestic interiors only became a subject worthy of a painter’s full attention in the modern era. The production of domestic…
SPECIAL UPDATE: CLICK FOR FREE 5 SONG DOWNLOAD FROM ORDINARY TIME’S IN THE TOWN OF DAVID. The Christian season of advent begins today, so it seems appropriate to feature a band with a really excellent Christmas album. I aquired Ordinary…
Why is it that most literate people do not read much poetry? There was a time in England and even America when volumes of poetry sold as well as novels did. But who really reads poetry today? Even among my…
One of the best things about a good piece of literature is its ability to construct a whole world, a world where you can become attached to its places and people, a world where you can imagine possibilities other than…
A review of In The Beginning is the Icon: a Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture by Sigurd Bergmann, translated by Anja K. Angelsen (London: Equinox, 2009). [originally published in Swedish in 2003] In his foreward, Nicholas Wolterstorff…
In this installment of giving thanks through art, I’d like to suggest a way in which art facilitates the act of thanksgiving between people, thus furthering the development of the community and the individual. Thus follows an examination of how…
This Tidbits is partly organised thematically offering links and resources on the topics of “The place of the artist,” Food and Theology, and the Church and Social Media. But that’s not all. Before we dive into links on those topics,…
Through music, humans express and explore every possible area of emotion and experience. For example, we use music to mourn, celebrate, muse, rage, despair, rejoice, and give thanks. To take this last example, what does it sound like to give…