More than a year ago the Gathering Church embarked on a creative musical project. Having dabbled in recorded music (a completed Advent EP used in conjunction with our Advent seasonal devotion and worship), we looked around our church community and…
Editor’s Note: In this post, Elizabeth Noyes reflects upon a show that she curated for St James Cathedral in Seattle, WA. The show was held from January to February 2012. The Director of Music, James Savage, and Director of Liturgy,…
To a preacher who kept saying, “We must put God in our lives,” the Master said, “He is already there. Our business is to recognize this.” [1] I have cherished this imaginary dialogue all through my ministry, and it has been…
The decades-old trend of fleeing the city for suburban life has perhaps roused many young adults to return to the excitement of the city. Perhaps idealized by Friends and Sex in the City, this reverse migration has also been generated…
Over the next three weeks (28 May – 15 June), Transpositions will be hosting an Art in the Church workshop. We have gathered scholars, practitioners, and artists and asked them to reflect upon and consider issues that emerge when art…
Editor’s Note: Wayne Adams is a professional artist living and working in New York. Transpositions invited Wayne to offer a synopsis of trends that he observes in his regular excursions through the New York City art world. One recent trend…
Over the past few years, I have been collecting names of people and organisations combining theology (predominantly theatre) and the arts. Generally these names have been given to me in the context of a conversation about my work, when, after…
The availability of recorded music has rendered music and song so ubiquitous that the intrinsically ephemeral nature of this art form, considered by Etienne Gilson to be ‘an art of time’, is seldom appreciated.[1] And yet, the contingency of the being of…
The 2012 South Western Region Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature will be held October 5-6 at Oklahoma Christian University in cooperation with Oklahoma Baptist University. The theme of the conference is Theatrum Mundi: Faith, Representation, and Multiculturalism.…