Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part review (see the first part here) God in dangerous territory: Interview with Rachel Mann, author of Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God. It is interesting to consider the idea…
While a scholarly investigation of art engages the imagination and intellect, a practical interaction with art employs the physical senses. More profoundly, art that is infused with spirituality can prompt the soul and the body to experience art at a…
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part review. God in dangerous territory: Interview with Rachel Mann, author of Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God (DLT, 2017). I first had the pleasure of meeting…
As the leaves begin to quiver with the dynamic winds of anticipated change, it is with great pleasure that we emerge from the waning moments of extended daylight and forge ahead into the crisp days of autumn. The summer has…
Experience and the written word seem to indicate that separation is beneficial on various levels. Thus, in order to truly appreciate something, one must be separated from it for an extended period of time in order to see it again…
Just before the dawn of the bloodiest century, Mark Twain conducted ‘scientific experiments’ in the London Zoological Gardens in which he contrasted the characteristics of the so-called ‘lower animals’ with those of human beings. His observations led him to renounce…
If you had told me a year ago that I would write a play and get to see it performed in London in front of a large audience, I would not have believed you. But way having led onto way,…
The eclipse in Ronald Knox’s fortunes after his death contrasts starkly with the recognition that he had enjoyed in his lifetime as writer, classicist, journalist, broadcaster, preacher and translator. Many contemporaries and fellow writers had praised his works. Among them…
Gerard Loughlin has referred to interdisciplinary scholars as ‘those who work at the edges … who wander, though determinedly, in the lands between, in places that are disconcertingly different.’ [1] Loughlin is writing of the volume Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary…