Review: Beyoncé and Blasphemy – A Review of Lemonade
Beyonce Knowles-Carter. Lemonade. Parkwood; Columbia, 2016. 10 tracks, including music video. £13.99 on iTunes. Perhaps this ‘review’ should begin with an apology. It is…
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Review: Hoping Against Hope
John D. Caputo. Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2015, 214pp. $14.99 paperback. My thesis advisor has a consistent…
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“Play this Song, DJ, Maybe We Can Change the World”
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 was a monumental day. It was the day America elected Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United…
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Hearing Visual Art in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Radio Plays
A few years ago, when I taught an undergraduate ‘systematic theology for artists’ class, we looked at the traditional ways certain biblical scenes are…
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Introducing Aesthetic Fast – a new performance art piece inspired by the prophetic traditions
Biblical background: In recent decades, performance art has considered how intangible experiences, such as fasting and other acts of endurance, may be viewed as…
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The Ethical Dimension of Aesthetic Experience
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a four-part series by Jim McCullough that will look at the ways in which art contributes…
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Theology of Technology: Apple’s ‘I’
Proposition: all of life is doxological response and everything to which we put our hands reflects our beliefs. And Apple products are no different….
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On Silence: A Primer and a Poem
I’m not sure there has ever been a time when humans loved silence. This is not to deny that we have a knack for…
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The Scandal of God Incarnate
When Max Ernst first displayed The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in 1926, the citizens of Cologne were aghast. The public outcry was…
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