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Transpositions is the official blog of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Featured Posts
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Creativity
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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... -
Art of Collaboration (part I): an apologia for collaboration in theology and the arts.
Posted on 18/01/2012 | 4 CommentsThis is the first post in a two part post collaboratively written by Jenn Craft and Anna Blanch. Part II, titled, ”Practical considerations when approaching collaboration theologically” will be published on 28 January, 2012. Coming out of the Hospitable Texts... -
Advent, Art and Receptivity
Posted on 13/12/2011 | 1 CommentAt the heart of advent is the attitude of receptivity. Gabriel appears to Mary and delivers the earth-shattering news: “You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus.” Mary’s... -
Eating to Survive or Eating to Live?
Posted on 18/11/2011 | 1 CommentEating, like clothing and shelter, is a necessity. But just as every culture discovers and develops ways of building shelters and designing clothing based on their resources and their particular needs and sensibilities, so too cooking is a creative necessity.... -
Jonah’s Scrapbook Journal: a journey of theological and artistic exploration
Posted on 08/11/2011 | 2 CommentsI have always been excited by children’s literature and even now, at the age of 33, my good reads account is full of authors such as Oliver Jeffers, Neil Gaiman and Emily Gravett. When I was young, I worked my...
