Philip Tallon (PhD, Saint Andrews) is the author of The Poetics of Evil and the co-editor of The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes. He’s on Twitter sometimes @philiptallon. In high school I was an avid Star Trek: The Next Generation fan, so one of my great pleasures this last…
Jim Watkins is assistant editor of Transpositions. He has recently completed a PhD in theology at the University of St Andrews. He enjoys reading books, visiting art museums and, of course, watching Star Trek. One of the most persistent questions…
It’s no secret that Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek to be secular. In a 1991 interview in The Humanist, Roddenberry said: ‘I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people…
Star Trek is one of the most successful American TV and Film science fiction franchises. It includes six TV series (The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise) lasting a total of 27…
Transpositions is about to boldly go where very few Christian blogs have gone before. Starting on Monday, we embark on a mission to bring Star Trek and Christianity into constructive dialogue. We hope that trekkies and non-trekkies alike will be…
This post is Part II in a series highlighting some insightful documentary films from the past decade on art and artmaking. [Read Part I here.] Can beauty save? Can art transform? These are questions that take on flesh and blood…
Surburbia has never appealed to me. Until ten years ago, I had almost always lived in places where we couldn’t even see our neighbours, let alone hear them. The Australian bush will spoil you like that. As a consequence, hearing…
Au bazar que prendrai-je At the bazaar shall I take L’étoile et son festin …
Jacques Ellul, the well-known French sociologist and theologian, whose works on Technique have been quite influential, was also … a poet! In fact, poetry has always been for Ellul an eminently mystical experience as well as, more profoundly, a way…