Transpositions Ten-Year Anniversary Series Part 4: Significant Art from the 2010s
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This final instalment of our ten-year anniversary series is published in a new year. We have turned the corner from the past…
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Review: ‘Time and Again: Playing it Back’
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was…
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‘Now cracks a noble heart’: Hamlet and Political Hope
When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans,…
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Review: After the Call – An artistic tapestry of beauty in the ordinary and the unexpected, Pt. II
Editors Note: This is the second installment of a two-part review. The After the Call event created by postgraduate practicing artists within the Institute for…
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Review: The Empty Church
Shannon Craigo-Snell. The Empty Church:Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 220 pages. £51.00. At a time of great change politically…
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Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein: An Experiment in Self-Imaging
Danny Boyle, the British film director who is responsible for Trainspotting (1996), Sunshine (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), reprised his early directorial career on…
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Dance and Christianity
David Brown has written, ‘Dance’s continuing engagement with the divine stands as a silent reprimand to the Church for so arbitrarily narrowing its own…
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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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Faithful Imagination in Theatre: What We Can Learn from C.S. Lewis
Quality theatre presented from a Christian perspective is hard to find. It exists in small pockets, such as Lamb’s Players Theater in San Diego,…
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