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Creativity: a Dead Metaphor? (Part II)
Posted on 16/04/2012 | 28 CommentsIn 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 I)
Posted on 09/04/2012 | 5 CommentsWe 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... -
A Bunch of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Revelation
Posted on 21/03/2012 | 5 Comments‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’ These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at best, deceptive at worst. But how often are they uttered after a sermon? People may not... -
Tribeca Arts Project: Artistic Collaboration bringing Transformation
Posted on 09/03/2012 | 2 CommentsTo conclude Art and Mission week, Transpositions interviewed ITIA PhD candidate, Tanya Walker, and asked her about the New York City Tribeca Arts Project she co-founded and directed for several years. The scope and activity of the Project reveals the... -
Arts and Ministry – Process over Product?
Posted on 08/03/2012 | 5 CommentsFor a number of years I have been involved in ministering to people in what are commonly known as ‘creative access’ countries. In other words, countries where people are marginalized and where the creative voice has been suppressed. Within this... -
Introducing a Week on Art and Mission
Posted on 05/03/2012 | 1 CommentThe arts have often found an uneasy place in the area of mission. When so many issues are at stake in mission work, how can we justify spending time on the arts? Can the arts be used to the benefit... -
Sacred Street Art and the Soul of a Community
Posted on 15/02/2012 | 3 CommentsStreet art and the sacred might seem like an odd pairing at first blush. But for Artist and Methodist minister Ric Stott the act and activity of creating art in abandoned, almost desolate, spaces is one of creative hope. For...
