Exploring Tragedy through Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
byAmong the most powerful aspects of human art is its ability to reveal our emotional appropriation of crucial theological issues. For instance, the literary…
Among the most powerful aspects of human art is its ability to reveal our emotional appropriation of crucial theological issues. For instance, the literary…
Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch…
The first time Les Murray’s poem, “Church,” was published, in 2005, it was accompanied by an interview with the poet. Valentina Polukhina asked: “You…
I recently asked 24 young artists[1] who were Christians to consider two questions: What does your craft require of you? What does the church…
In the second half of J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement speech, ‘The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination‘, Rowling defines imagination…
Every now and then, someone will challenge why I would consider thinking through literature theologically, or whether thinking about theological texts and scripture with…
Travis Buchanan just completed his M.Litt. at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews and is beginning…