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Creativity as a Battle: Artists and Academics [Part Two]
Posted on 20/02/2013 | 1 CommentIn my previous post, I suggested three areas of common ground between academics and artists with the final being that both participate in creative and constructive work. The interesting discussion that ensued after this post led me to wonder how... -
Lent, Facebook and Desire
Posted on 18/02/2013 | 12 CommentsAre you giving up Facebook for Lent? Lots of people are doing it. In a 2012 survey published on Christianity Today and generated using Twitter, Facebook appeared as the 6th most common thing that people give up for Lent. Responding to... -
I Wonder: Work, Art, and the Deeper Meaning of Life
Posted on 06/02/2013 | 4 CommentsEditor’s Note: Transpositions is pleased to welcome Somer Salomon to the team! This is her first post as a regular contributor. Having previously been a guest contributor to Transpositions, I am delighted now to be a “regular!” Although I began... -
The Voice of a Generation, or How “Girls” Helps the Church See
Posted on 04/02/2013 | No CommentsThe HBO comedy-drama Girls, the brainchild of Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow, is an awards darling. Its freshman series received both the Golden Globe for Best Comedy and Best Actress for Dunham the same night its second series premiered. Dunham,... -
God and Oscar®: Whispers of Faith in the Motion Picture Academy
Posted on 30/01/2013 | No CommentsIn a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Image editor Gregory Wolfe rejects the assertion that: Whereas in the 20th century there were literary giants who grappled with faith—T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor—our own time is devoid of distinguished writers... -
Signs and Sacraments: Considering “Natural Signs and Knowledge of God”
Posted on 28/01/2013 | 1 CommentC. Stephen Evans. Natural Signs and Knowledge of God: A New Look at Theistic Arguments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, x + 207 pp., £20.00/$39.95 paper, £51.00/$85.00 cloth. In this book, C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities... -
Wait, Don’t Tell Me…I Already Know
Posted on 23/01/2013 | 2 CommentsAs the line between technology and magic continues to blur, there is, perhaps, no place more colorfully entertaining in which to experience this blurring than Walt Disney World. Earlier this month the Walt Disney Company announced the planned introduction of a new...
