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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... -
An Exercise in Transposition: Reflections on ‘The Artist’
Posted on 20/02/2012 | 6 CommentsIn a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s exciting about it is you have a movie using the techniques that were in use in... -
Art, Incarnation and the Human Body
Posted on 17/02/2012 | 8 CommentsFrom Christmas to the Corpus Christi, the liturgical year keeps on reminding us about how the Word of God has assumed a human nature. We call this the “incarnation”, which means “to become flesh”. For at least two reasons, it... -
![If you haven’t seen “Keep Calm and Carry On” or one of its variations over the past decade, you’ve missed a truly global phenomenon.[1] The propaganda poster, designed by the British Ministry of Information (MOI) in 1939, was distributed in...](http://www.transpositions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Keep-Calm-and-Carry-On-200-115x115.jpg "Keep Calm and Pray On")
Keep Calm and Pray On
Posted on 10/02/2012 | 4 CommentsIf you haven’t seen “Keep Calm and Carry On” or one of its variations over the past decade, you’ve missed a truly global phenomenon.[1] The propaganda poster, designed by the British Ministry of Information (MOI) in 1939, was distributed in... -
Kitsch: Feeling Good about Ourselves While Evil Goes Unchecked
Posted on 08/02/2012 | 4 CommentsDecember 2011 found me in Munich. One evening I inched my way through the Christmas markets with their good humoured crowds, the gingerbread stars and Christmas trees, the locally carved wooden cribs, the Glühwein, the brass bands playing carols, the... -
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... -
Ancient and Beautiful and True
Posted on 03/02/2012 | 4 CommentsGeorge R.R. Martin famously wrote in The Faces of Fantasy: Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of...
