“I’m Going to Lie to Lots of People”: Mike Daisey & Theatrical Fiction
On January 6, 2012, the public radio show This American Life aired an excerpt from monologuist Mike Daisey‘s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve…
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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…
Read MoreWearing Out the Faith
I had a friend in high school who had a bumpersticker on her car that read, “Warning: in case of rapture car will be…
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Is art fundamental to human living? Birth as Performance Art
Back in March of this year, Transpositions hosted an extended book review of John Carey’s What Good are the Arts?. In the first chapter, Carey…
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Christian Theology and Tragedy: Wrestling with the Woundedly Embroiled
A Review of Kevin Taylor and Giles Waller, eds., Christian Theology and Tragedy: Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory (Ashgate, 2011). Christians are quick…
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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The Cotton Patch Gospel: Translation In and Out of Context
There have been many translations of the Bible, one of the most famous being The King James Version, for which Transpositions is celebrating its…
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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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