Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, and Christopher Theofanidis. QU4RTETS. New York: Fujimura Institute, 2012, 90 pp., $30.00 paper. This catalogue was published to coincide with the touring exhibition “QU4RTETS–art and music reflecting on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.” The catalogue includes a “Foreword” from…
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Image editor Gregory Wolfe rejects the assertion that: Whereas in the 20th century there were literary giants who grappled with faith—T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor—our own time is devoid of distinguished writers…
C. Stephen Evans. Natural Signs and Knowledge of God: A New Look at Theistic Arguments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, x + 207 pp., £20.00 paper, £51.00 cloth. In this book, C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities…
J.A.C. Redford is a composer and orchestrator with dozens of Hollywood film and television scores to his credit. His recent collaborations with Thomas Newman include The Iron Lady, The Help, and Wall-E; his work with James Horner features such titles…
As the line between technology and magic continues to blur, there is, perhaps, no place more colorfully entertaining in which to experience this blurring than Walt Disney World. Earlier this month the Walt Disney Company announced the planned introduction of a new…
I’ve been intrigued by the This is Our City project for a while now. This is Our City is a multi-year initiative of Christianity Today that seeks to document the way Christians are changing the cities in which they live.…
Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, eds., Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2012. 100 pp., £55.00 cloth. The purpose of this volume is to introduce and provide context for Blake’s Genesis manuscript. The editors present this…
Over the New Year, I had the pleasure of regularly sitting at a long dinner table with a group of artists, delighting in the conversation that developed as ideas, dreams, and challenges were shared. While this is not a realm…
Whether by intention, a mysterious act of providence, or both, my reading in the last week was directed toward the theme of ‘post-secularism’ and the arts. By ‘post-secularism’, I mean the view that ‘secularism’ or the increasing ‘secularization’ of the…