Editorial Note: Jennifer Agee is writing in response to Jim Watkins’ post titled “Christianity, Culture and the Two Natures of Christ,” which was published on 26 Nov., 2012. Jim Watkins certainly makes a fair point that there is no pristine,…
They all tend to begin the same way. An individual steps out of the crowd in a public place, often a mall or transportation terminal, and begins dancing, singing, or making music everyone present can see and hear. The act…
M. Night Shyamalan is one of the most spiritual filmmakers of our time, and Lady in the Water is his manifesto. Lady in the Water is not the strongest of M. Night Shyamalan’s films. Its mythology is pedestrian and inconsistent. (For example, how…
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 5–part series on Daniel A. Siedell by Christopher R. Brewer. Part 1 – A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Mean–Evangelical Style” was published 24 September, Part 2 – A Response to Siedell’s “Art…
Those who watched the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics were presented with a visual display of what British art, design, and music has offered the world over the past century. With an economy still in decline and a…
Many conversations about Christianity and culture begin by questioning how one should relate Christianity and culture. Should Christians be against culture? Should Christians embrace and affirm culture? This starting point assumes that Christianity, or at least some part of it,…
Kirstie Blair. Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 258 pp., £60.00 cloth. In this book Kirstie Blair, lecturer at the University of Glasgow, reconsiders the vitality of faith in the Victorian era, an…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, one image in particular has drawn attention: the Breezy Point Madonna. This stone lawn statue of the Virgin Mary remained standing when the house to which it belonged, as well as about 100 others…
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 5–part series on Daniel A. Siedell by Christopher R. Brewer. Part 1 – A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Mean–Evangelical Style” was published 24 September and Part 2 –…