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

Featured Artist: David Hooker

Posted on 10/05/2013 | 3 Comments
David Hooker is a ceramicist and sculptor living in the Chicago area where he is associate professor of art at Wheaton College. He grew up on South Carolina, and he received an MFA in Ceramics from Kent State. He blogs...
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Making Room for Others: Creative Genius and Theology

Posted on 29/04/2013 | 11 Comments
This post is long overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway. In a 2009 TED Talk titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame spoke about the need for a way of thinking about artistic creativity that...
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Featured Artist: Amanda Hamilton

Posted on 05/04/2013 | 1 Comment
Amanda Hamilton is a contemporary American artist working in various media. She produces large installations, intimate paper works, videos and more. Hamilton received a BS in Drawing and Painting from Biola in 2000, and then she went to complete an...
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Reflections on a Retreat for Ministers to Artists

Posted on 25/03/2013 | 4 Comments
From Thursday March 7 to Sunday March 10, I had the pleasure and privilege to participate in a retreat for minsters to artists at Laity Lodge (about 1 hour outside of San Antonio, TX). The Lodge itself is a remarkable...
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Lent, Facebook and Desire

Posted on 18/02/2013 | 12 Comments
Are you giving up Facebook for Lent? Lots of people are doing it. In a 2012 survey published on Christianity Today and generated using Twitter, Facebook appeared as the 6th most common thing that people give up for Lent. Responding to...
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Post-Secularism, Theology and the Arts

Posted on 14/01/2013 | 1 Comment
Whether by intention, a mysterious act of providence, or both, my reading in the last week was directed toward the theme of ‘post-secularism’ and the arts. By ‘post-secularism’, I mean the view that ‘secularism’ or the increasing ‘secularization’ of the...
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Christianity, Culture and the Two Natures of Christ

Posted on 26/11/2012 | No Comments
Many conversations about Christianity and culture begin by questioning how one should relate Christianity and culture. Should Christians be against culture? Should Christians embrace and affirm culture? This starting point assumes that Christianity, or at least some part of it,...
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