Registration open for ‘Risking Mystery: Contemporary Arts and Sacred Worship’
Risking Mystery: Contemporary Arts and Sacred Worship a conference organised by Arts & Christianity Ireland 20 October 2012; Dublin, Ireland. Please email ACI to register.
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Review: The Poet as Believer
Aidan Nichols. The Poet as Believer: A Theological Study of Paul Claudel. Surrey: Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, 2011. 275 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2685-1. In Aidan Nichols’ review of the life and works of Paul Claudel, he succeeds…
Say Cheese? – The Blurring of Public and Private
Not too long ago, I was listening to the story of a guy (I’ll call him Mark) who went to see one of his favorite sports heroes. There was quite a queue to meet and talk with the man, and…
Make a whistle from my throat: Giving voice to the voiceless
Make a whistle from my throat I do not know what will happen after I die. I do not want to know. But I would like the Potter to make a whistle from the clay of my throat. May this…
Call for Papers – Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives
Call for Papers Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom 1-3 August 2013 Congregational music-making has long been a vital and vibrant practice within Christian communities worldwide. Congregational music reflects, informs, and articulates local…
Someone Like You: Music, Pain, and Sentimentality
For even the most casual listener of Radio 1, it is self-evident that pain, rejection, and love-lost provides a deep well of inspiration for popular music. I remember being at a Snow Patrol gig and after several high-energy songs with…
Films about Art: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
This post is Part III in a series highlighting some insightful documentary films from the past decade on art and artmaking. [Read Part I and Part II.] Art belongs out in public. Not in some white-walled gallery, policed by a shadowy…
The Undiscovered Country Project: My Voyage Through Star Trek From a Christian Worldview Perspective
Kevin C. Neece is a contributing editor for Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts, a media and pop culture columnist for New Identity Magazine and the founder and editor of The Undiscovered Country Project, an ongoing journey through Star Trek…
The Vulcan Messiah: Spock as a Christ Figure
Kevin C. Neece is a contributing editor for Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Theology and the Arts, a media and pop culture columnist for New Identity Magazine and the founder and editor of The Undiscovered Country Project, an ongoing journey through Star Trek…