This Tuesday, October 31, marks the five hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation – the day Luther is said to have nailed his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg. It also marks Halloween, All Hallows…
LUTHERSCHE LEIDENSMUSIK St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, University of St Andrews Kellie Consort Tom Wilkinson, director Sanctiandree, SAND0005 2017, £14.50 Among the various events taking place in October 2017 in St Andrews to mark the 500th anniversary of Luther’s posting of…
We live in noisy times. We are saturated with sounds, words, and images. Silence frightens us, and for good reasons. The world is hard and broken and if we stop and think about it all too long, it overwhelms us.…
Mary Vanhoozer, Songs of Day and Night (album, 2015) [1] ‘What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows.…
Poets are invited to apply for this workshop and collaboration opportunity and the chance to spend time in sessions including creative workshops with ITIA to produce a new poem during StAnza 2018. This project offers poets the opportunity to work…
At this point, any conversation about Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner and its place in the canon is irrelevant. Alongside Alien, Mr. Scott managed to create universes that transcend the simplicity of the storytelling and have so deeply influenced…
Peter Joseph Fritz. Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics. The Catholic University of America Press, 2014, xvii + 286 pp., £45.95. In Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics, author Peter Joseph Fritz, Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts,…
‘We are a ferocious animal. We humans are terrible animals. Here in Europe, in Africa, in South America, everywhere. We are extremely violent. Our history is a history of wars. It’s an endless story, a story of repression, a tale…
If the deep purpose of creaturely reality is to make manifest the glory of God, then the ‘place-writing’ of Robert Macfarlane may be said to register whole constellations and caverns of glory to which we are customarily oblivious— ‘continents within…