Featured Artist: Janet McKenzie
Michael Hallman OSA explores “Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: The Art of Janet McKenzie.”
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We Can Do Better: A Reply to John Starke
You may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts….
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An Exercise in Transposition: Reflections on ‘The Artist’
In a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s…
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Art, Incarnation and the Human Body
From Christmas to the Corpus Christi, the liturgical year keeps on reminding us about how the Word of God has assumed a human nature….
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Keep Calm and Pray On
If you haven’t seen “Keep Calm and Carry On” or one of its variations over the past decade, you’ve missed a truly global phenomenon.[1]…
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Kitsch: Feeling Good about Ourselves While Evil Goes Unchecked
December 2011 found me in Munich. One evening I inched my way through the Christmas markets with their good humoured crowds, the gingerbread stars…
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Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…
Good art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It…
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Ancient and Beautiful and True
George R.R. Martin famously wrote in The Faces of Fantasy: Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli….
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Art of Collaboration (part II): practical approaches to collaboration in theology and the arts
We outline ta vision for scholarly collaboration, and offer some practical considerations to keep in mind when approaching a collaborative process in theology and the arts.
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