“Behold I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” – Matthew 10:16 Recently I had the opportunity to speak to a college stage management class at a small…
Jane Dagget Dillenberger and John Handley, The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, xii + 108 pp., £27.95 cloth. The book presented here, written with my friend and colleague John Handley, explores the religious art of Pablo Picasso–a…
Marcia B. Hall and Tracy E. Cooper, eds., The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xv + 339 pp., £65.00 cloth. While a volume like this is quite difficult to read given the fact that no attempt has…
Jerram Barrs. Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature and the Arts. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013, 194 pp., £11.99 paper. Jerram Barrs has written an accessible and enjoyable introduction to some of the questions and issues that arise when Christians…
From 2 June, to 30 July, 2014, at Rothes Halls in Glenrothes, there will be an exhibition of the photography of Thomas Brauer with the painting and mixed media works of Rebecca Stewart (a Christian artist exploring issues of belief…
Editor’s note: This is the last of a three-part review of Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds. Theology, Aesthetics, & Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 313 pp., £68.00 cloth. Read the first and second…
In this post, I want to offer several thoughts on the way in which popular culture imagines the challenges of a post-life; first, with reference to Ulrich Simon (1913-1997) from whose work this post derives its title,[1] and second, by turning to…
I am often bothered by the word “submission.” This can be in reference to human beings’ relation to God, ecclesial leadership, and even, the Son’s relationship to the Father. This can happen when the term is used in ways that…
Paul Maltby, Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 248 pp., £21.50 paper. In Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment, Paul Maltby (Professor of English at West Chester University) offers a self-described “polemical”…