Some years ago, Winchester Cathedral hosted an exhibition called Light, featuring artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn, and Darren Almond. As a result of this exhibition, Rev. Charles Pickstone, a regular contributor to debates on contemporary art and religion…
Editor’s Note: commission4mission is an arts organisation based in the United Kingdom. For the Art in the Church Workshop, Transpositions interviewed its Secretary, Jonathan Evens. (1) Please briefly describe your organisation. commission4mission was launched in March 2009 to encourage the…
Will churches patron artists? And, if they do, will artists give some of the art back to their community? The By/For Project came about in response to these questions and has shown that church patronage of the arts is possible;…
Six years ago, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, a Gen X church plant merged with a 110-year-old congregation to form a new “missional community devoted to the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.” Since then we have been in…
At Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin we did a teaching series called “The Story.” The series was designed to tell the story of scripture from beginning to new beginning. We wanted to help people see that the story of the…
Editor’s Note: Plasso Design is a visual arts ministry operating in North Carolina, USA. For the Art in the Church Workshop, Transpostions interviewed its founder, David Allsbrook. 1. Please briefly describe yourself and your ministry. A thirty-something husband and father of three…
The gospels portray the passion of Jesus as more than an atoning transaction. Indeed, Jesus’ suffering was the tragic culminating moment of Adam’s race when not only sin-guilt bottlenecked, but also the total darkened experience of exiled humanity living east of Eden—separation,…
What is a “Minister for Classical Music”? This was the big question that faced me when I moved to North London last summer and took on a new job in a new culture. My church is a medium-large parish church…
“It is space on earth that is made holy, not because of the place itself but because of what God does for humans in that place.” James F. White [1] Often times, when followers of Christ gather together for the…