Whether viewers of DreamWorks’s iconic film The Prince of Egypt notice its rich take on the story of Moses depends on how the movie was encountered: was it a part of religious instruction in Sunday School or enjoyed among friends…
Charles Taylor. Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024, 640 pages, £31.95. In his most recent book Cosmic Connections the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor explores Romantic and post-Romantic poetry as a response to…
After a year of being offline, Transpositions is back. And we, for one, couldn’t be more thrilled about this news. Through a series of unfortunate events, we found ourselves without a website early last year. Thanks to the hard work of many,…
Introduction In Crime and Punishment, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, candle-lit Magdalenes blaze into burning-bush Madonnas, whose fiery presence proves to be redemptive. In each novel, Dostoevsky fans candle flames into redemptive fires through a series of shifting associations: he…
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of performances and readings. This year’s exhibit ran from 17–22 March, 2026 and was curated around the…
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of performances and readings. This year’s exhibit ran from 17–22 March, 2026 and was curated around the…
The Princess books, some of George MacDonald’s most memorable tales, tell the stories of two children who each encounter a wise old woman, known as the great-great grandmother (hereafter, “the grandmother”) of the princess Irene. There has been much speculation…
Inspiration is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet. Silence, the unmeasurable, desire to be, desire to express, the source of new need, meets Light, the measurable, the giver of all presence, by will, by…
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), an American regionalist landscape painter, reframes Christian imagery of Pentecost in his 1989 painting of the same name. In Pentecost, large fishing nets hang out to dry on poles, illuminated gold by an off-canvas sun. A wind…