This week Transpositions is honored to feature a series of collaborative meditations on the events of Lent by drawing together the poetry of Gerald St. Maur and the photography of Rev. Thomas Brauer. A widely published poet, author, and former Dean…
Jeremy S. Begbie. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 261 (272) pp., £35.00 hardback. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening (henceforth, MMG), by Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of…
Fifteen years into the 21st century, the once definitive line between screen and world, both topographically and ontologically, is rapidly diffusing. Legitimate virtual reality—something out of the set of the 1983 film Brainstorm—has arrived, blurring the line between our private…
What’s the deal with all the vampires? One thing that makes them interesting is that, unlike the also-popular zombie, far from being the frequent subject of shock-horror fare, this monster comes with a certain amount of class. In Twilight and…
Christine Valters Paintner, The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2011, xiv + 171 pp., £14.99 paper. The Artist’s Rule is basically Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way meets the Rule of St.…
Charles Williams is utterly distinctive. Some scholars think that Williams has something to say that both resonates with and challenges postmodernity. His work deals sympathetically with man’s suffering, contradictions, and impossibilities, in addition to the accompanying skepticism. Many postmoderns can…
Deborah Sokolove, Sanctifying Art: Artists, Theologians, and the Church (Cascade Books, 2013). 202 pp. £23 ISBN 978-1620326336. In her monograph Sanctifying Art, Deborah Sokolove seeks to ‘change the conversation’ about art in the church, by making the often arcane world of…
Perhaps there is no better way to end a conversation, initiate awkward silence or illicit blank stares at your next dinner party than to mention the term, apologetics, within the context of polite conversation. The consternation and agnosticism surrounding this…
“Power is a gift.”[1] These are not, as you might expect, the words of Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey’s character in the American version of House of Cards. Rather, they are the words of Andy Crouch, the executive editor of Christianity…