About Author: Jim Watkins

Jim Watkins is the assistant editor and a regular contributor at Transpositions. Originally, Jim is from southern California and southeastern Texas, but sometimes he feels most at home in the landscape and coffee shops of the Pacific Northwest. He met his wife Emily at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he studied Studio Art (concentration in painting). For his PhD research, he is examining the relationship between divine and human creativity from the perspective of divine kenosis.

Posts by Jim Watkins

  • In Part I, I suggested that words like ‘create,’ ‘creation’ and ‘creativity’ are dead metaphors because a robust theology of creation is no longer ‘mapped onto’ the human activities commonly referred to as ‘creative’. Then, I asked whether it might be...

    Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part II)

    In Part I, I suggested that words like ‘create,’ ‘creation’ and ‘creativity’ are dead metaphors because a robust theology of creation is no longer ‘mapped onto’ the human activities commonly referred to as ‘creative’. Then, I asked whether it might be...

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  • We are living in a time when many clergy and lay professionals are calling upon Christians to be creative. This quote from Andy Crouch’s blog is an excellent example: Christians are becoming dissatisfied with the postures they adopted toward culture...

    Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part I)

    We are living in a time when many clergy and lay professionals are calling upon Christians to be creative. This quote from Andy Crouch’s blog is an excellent example: Christians are becoming dissatisfied with the postures they adopted toward culture...

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  • Wayne Adams is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York.  He received a BFA from Calvin College (1996), and then an MFA from Washington University in St Louis (2000).  In 2009-10, Adams was awarded an International Arts Movement...

    Featured Artist: Wayne Adams

    Wayne Adams is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York.  He received a BFA from Calvin College (1996), and then an MFA from Washington University in St Louis (2000).  In 2009-10, Adams was awarded an International Arts Movement...

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  • Martin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford University Press, 2012).  368 pages. What images deserve the status of ‘icon’? In his newest book, Martin Kemp brings the trained eye and scholarly method of an art historian to...

    Christ to Coke: A Review

    Martin Kemp, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford University Press, 2012).  368 pages. What images deserve the status of ‘icon’? In his newest book, Martin Kemp brings the trained eye and scholarly method of an art historian to...

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  • You may have noticed that The Gospel Coalition has recently produced videos and blog posts that explore the relationship between Christianity and the arts. For an evangelical Christian who loves the arts, I am encouraged to see some evangelical leaders...

    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. For an evangelical Christian who loves the arts, I am encouraged to see some evangelical leaders...

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  • I love comedy.  And by ‘comedy’, I don’t mean a happy ending; I mean humour, funny, jokes, hilarity, ridiculous, etc.  If you ask me what movie or TV show I want to watch, with a few exceptions, my preference will...

    Why Christians Need Comedy

    I love comedy.  And by ‘comedy’, I don’t mean a happy ending; I mean humour, funny, jokes, hilarity, ridiculous, etc.  If you ask me what movie or TV show I want to watch, with a few exceptions, my preference will...

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  • Roger Feldman graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Art Education. He then studied theology at Fuller Seminary for one year, but he chose to return to Seattle and set up a studio.  After working for a...

    Featured Artist: Roger Feldman

    Roger Feldman graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Art Education. He then studied theology at Fuller Seminary for one year, but he chose to return to Seattle and set up a studio.  After working for a...

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