Playing with Immaterial Evidence
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
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Reflections on ‘Immaterial Evidence’
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
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Purged and Prepared: The Great-Great Grandmother’s Rosefire in George MacDonald’s Princess Stories
The Princess books, some of George MacDonald’s most memorable tales, tell the stories of two children who each encounter a wise old woman, known…
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A House for Prometheus
Inspiration is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet. Silence, the unmeasurable, desire to be, desire to express, the…
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‘The Spirit of Something’: Presence and Absence in Andrew Wyeth’s Pentecost
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), an American regionalist landscape painter, reframes Christian imagery of Pentecost in his 1989 painting of the same name. In Pentecost, large…
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The Discreet Religiosity of Taylor Swift
Pop music deals in ‘obsequious’ gestures, and in this respect Taylor Swift is no exception. 1 Indeed, she has a gift for poetic compression,…
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Furiosa’s Redemptive Instinct to Live
Mad Max: Fury Road invites its audience onto a journey of restoration. Both ‘Mad’ Max and Furiosa are haunted by their pasts and seek…
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Fairytales and Erik Varden: A Renewal of Childlike Faith
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to…
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Travel Notes: On Writing, Surprise and the Self Through Time
Reading Plato’s Phaedrus, we learn that Socrates disapproved of writing. The funny thing is that Plato, who was his student, felt it appropriate to…
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