Marcus Coates: A Quest for Visions – Contemporary Art & the Church
One of the most intriguing individuals at work in the art world today is Marcus Coates, a curiously atavistic figure, part-shaman, part-performance artist, whose…
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A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means–Evangelical Style”
In Engaging Art Prize: A Storied Theology of the Arts [Part Two], I suggested that a rightly Storied theology of the arts, one that acknowledges…
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Call for Papers – Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives
Call for Papers Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom 1-3 August 2013 Congregational music-making has long been…
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Ideologies of the Acoustic Guitar in Contemporary Worship Music
Last semester I taught a popular music history course. When we got to music of the early 1990s, one of my students started singing…
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Passing the Flame: An Interview with Run with the Fire
Editor’s Note: With the start of the London Olympics just around the corner, Transpositions interviewed Steve Scott about Run with the Fire, an arts initiative inspired by the…
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‘The Holy Amidst the Mundane’: The Practice of Christian Liturgical Drama
Since 2011, we have created and implemented original theatre pieces (sometimes scripted, sometimes improvisational) into ecumenical Christian worship at Yale Divinity School. Rather than…
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Practical Considerations for Hosting a Gallery in a Church
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…
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Tenebrae: Pursuing the Whole Worshipper
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…
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Engaging Art Prize: Two Vignettes [Part Three]
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 3-part series on Art Prize by guest contributor, Chris Brewer. Brewer started with an introduction to the competition (published 11 April), followed…
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