As the lengthened days of summer pull back the perceptual curtain to reveal the vibrant colours of existence that surround us, it is also the season when the editorial staff at Transpositions takes its customary annual break from publishing. This time…
What makes a good writer? Is it a firm grasp of language? A creative mind? A broad literary taste? A thorough education? Is it all of the above or something else altogether? I’d like to attempt an answer to this…
When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans, the director cut it down to two hours, including intermission. What got the chop: the monologues…
Eighty-two years have passed since the heated public exchange between Spanish writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and Nationalist General José Millán Astray in the Paraninfo of the ancient University of Salamanca of which Unamuno was Rector, just three months…
Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book, Edited by Robyn Wrigley-Carr, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2018m £9.99 For 75 years, followers and fans of Evelyn Underhill’s work lamented the misplacement of two hand-written prayer books she used when leading spiritual retreats. The books contained…
‘There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.’ [1] With these two provocative little sentences, E.H. Gombrich begins his famed book, The Story of Art. It is a surprising way to begin a relatively comprehensive guide to…
I find it sadly ironic that Garth Davis’s exquisite 2018 film Mary Magdalene became an unexpected victim in the #MeToo movement which emerged following the New York Times article on movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s purported long history of sexual harassment and abuse.…
Coloring the Psalms: Seeing God’s Patterns in Our Lives. By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, illustrated by James Newman Gray. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016. 72 pages. $15. In the spirit of the psalms, which do not carry strict prescription for…
Editor’s note: We are very pleased to present the second part of an interview with distinguished artist Penny Warden. In the first part, she discussed her personal journey to become a practicing artist and the role of religious art in…