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Engaging Art Prize: Two Vignettes [Part Three]
Posted on 25/04/2012 | 8 CommentsEditor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 3-part series on Art Prize by guest contributor, Chris Brewer. Brewer started with an introduction to the competition (published 11 April), followed by his suggestion of a storied theology of the arts as a way by which to... -
Migrations: Journeys into British Art
Posted on 23/04/2012 | No CommentsThe concept of migration always sparks a reaction. On the one hand, it conjures up images of exotic cultures, the excitement of travel or the evocative poignancy of exile. On the other, it presses public panic buttons as the Other... -
Engaging Art Prize: An Introduction [Part One]
Posted on 11/04/2012 | 2 CommentsEditor’s Note: Over the next three Wednesdays, Transpositions will feature a 3-part series on Art Prize by guest contributor, Chris Brewer. Starting with an introduction to the competition (published 11 April), Brewer suggests a storied theology of the arts as a... -
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... -
We Can Do Better: A Reply to John Starke
Posted on 22/02/2012 | 13 CommentsYou 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... -
Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…
Posted on 06/02/2012 | 7 CommentsGood 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 can be, I believe, a manifestation of the sacred. Religious kitsch, on the other hand, with...
