Children of Eden – A World in Search of a Gospel
In a previous post, I outlined C.S. Lewis’s guidelines for a Christian journal, in which he suggests that Christians who do have evangelistic aims…
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The Museum as Church: A Response to Alain de Botton
A response to Alain de Botton’s proposal that museums become the new churches of secular society.
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The Coming of the King: Transpositions Celebrates Fantasy Literature
Starting Monday, Transpositions will be celebrating fantasy literature with a week-long online symposium. The upcoming topics include: Monday, 5 December: Laura Schmidt, archivist for the…
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C.S. Lewis’s Guidelines for a Christian Journal
In April 1947, C.S. Lewis wrote to Laurence Whistler with advice on the creation of a Christian literary journal which Whistler was hoping to…
Read MoreDorothy L. Sayers on the Contemplative Vocation of the Artist
One of my favourite pieces of writing by Dorothy L. Sayers is her 1946 letter exchange with C.S. Lewis.[1] Lewis wrote to Sayers inviting…
Read More‘He Who Loses His Life will Find It’: How Narrative Gives Life [Part Two]
In my previous post, I discussed the arguments of directors Deborah Pearson and George Hunka against narrative. Specifically, Pearson argued that narratives are problematic…
Read More‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’: Does Narrative Kill? [Part One]
In her article ‘The Necessity of Narrative?’, director Deborah Pearson critiques narrative, viewing it as a storytelling tool which is morally suspect because it…
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Towards a Eucharistic Theatre
I’m currently on a month-long road trip around the Eastern half of the U.S., visiting members of religious orders who work in the professional…
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Jerusalem: Dramaturgy & Mystery
In my previous post on Benedictine hospitality in the theatre, I wrote the following: One example of hospitable care for the audience is dramaturgy…
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