Are you giving up Facebook for Lent? Lots of people are doing it. In a 2012 survey published on Christianity Today and generated using Twitter, Facebook appeared as the 6th most common thing that people give up for Lent. Responding to…
Christianity and ‘The Rite’ Symposium Retuned welcomes 1000-1500 word articles on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for an online symposium the week of May 26th, 2013. Authors are solicited to contribute to the symposium by exploring “The Rite” from a…
In Book I of the Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy visits her suffering disciple as a bright-eyed woman with a remarkable outfit: “Her garments were of an imperishable fabric, wrought with the finest threads and of the most delicate workmanship;…
I began working wood in earnest when, during graduate school, a discount-store shelving unit nearly collapsed under my growing collection of books. My wife and I went to the lumber yard and came back with a small pile of boards…
Last weekend, I had 24 hours without husband and kids. I fully intended to read three books, drink endless cups of tea and sleep at least 14 hours. Before I started my book, I put on a load of laundry.…
The new feminism of the mid-20th century brought several opportunities and expectations for women. Among them was the idea that women no longer had to stay confined to the home. As a result, the domestic arts that women had so…
Next week, Transpositions will be hosting a symposium on the Domestic Arts. Topics will range from domestic arts and place, woodworking, textiles, domesticity and worship, and baking and communion. We hope to explore the unique experience that the artists of the everyday bring to their…
Having previously been a guest contributor to Transpositions, I am delighted now to be a “regular!” Although I began contributing as a graduate student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, I am now full-time in the “working…
The HBO comedy-drama Girls, the brainchild of Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow, is an awards darling. Its freshman series received both the Golden Globe for Best Comedy and Best Actress for Dunham the same night its second series premiered. Dunham,…