Music and Transcendence. Edited by Férdia J. Stone-Davis. Ashgate: Farnham (Surrey), 2015. £65 This collection of essays, based on a prior conference of the same title, brings into light potentially new ideas for readers versed in the overlapping fields of…
Michael Wheeler, St John and the Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 286 pps., $44.99 / £30.82 This is a fun book. Lurking behind profound scholarship and deep knowledge of a vast array of literature, ranging from poems through hymns to…
Makoto Fujimura, Peter Edman (Editor), Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life, International Arts Movement and the Fujimura Institute, 2015, 124. pps., $25.00 / £17.28. In his book Culture Care, Makoto Fujimura (artist, arts-advocate, and co-founder of International…
John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism marks the fiftieth anniversary of Piper’s High Altar tapestry in Chichester Cathedral by celebrating and exploring his textile work in exhibition and catalogue. Curator Simon Martin, artistic director at Pallant House Gallery and member…
Jonathan L. Walls and Jerry Walls, editors. Tarantino and Theology. Los Angeles, CA: Sideshow Media Group, 2015, 264. pps., $19.99 / £13.02. When dealing with a creator as distinctive in style, content, attitude, and execution as Quentin Tarantino, the reactions…
Rowan Williams. The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. xiii + 204pp. £20.00 hardcover. Rowan Williams breaks the silence by asking: “Does the way we talk as human beings tell us anything about God?”…
In the midst of Holy Week, as we enter into the dramatic triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, it is worth pausing for a moment to reconsider what all this is for. What have the crucifixion of…
On December 18, 1963, while visiting the campus of Western Michigan University, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these famous words: “We must face the fact that in America, the church is still the most segregated major institution…
Amena Brown, Breaking Old Rhythms: Answering the Call of a Creative God, Intervarsity Press, 2013, 144. pps., $10 / £6.30. “We are God’s poetry. What God does in our life has rhythm, has rhyme, and is poetry” (135). These two…