Last week I wrote about MacKillop, the musical celebrating the life of Australian nun and founder of the Order of St Joseph, Mary MacKillop. It got me thinking about musicals and plays about Christians of the past and historical figures…
If you come in a space with a big flame of fire you will get burnt, and you cannot say: ‘This is the symbol of a flame’, because you will die of the heat of this flame. So is Christ…
Last week I brought up the topic of how we might think about the relationship of the artist to the church, raising some questions about the nature of both “Christian art” and the artist’s sense of membership with the church.…
My previous post on cakes has provoked a good deal of comment, and one of those comments, as well as Sara’s post on autonomy, have made me consider an issue that had been hiding in a dusty corner of my…
When I was working with clients as a graphic designer, there was one statement that I never wanted to hear: ‘You can do whatever you want.’ While I always appreciated the inherent trust they had in me, this was always…
“I never like jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his…
Heavens, the stage is set for Mackillop the musical casting It’s soul music as Mary’s life hits the stage Do you have what it takes to be a saint? AP reports that a nationwide call has gone out for a…
Analysing a work of art by constructing a worldview that supposedly shapes the work of art or is embodied by the work of art is currently a fashionable trend in Christian engagement with the arts. While I think this is…
Welcome to the first round of Tidbits, a post we hope to publish every other week that highlights various tidbits of news and notes from around the world and the web in the area of theology, imagination, and the arts.…