‘Click to Insert Image’: PowerPoint & ‘Art’ in the Church
I’m not sure when the shift to using PowerPoint in the church happened. At some point, screens replaced paper, words replaced notes, and the…
Introducing a Symposium on Beauty
The concept of beauty in relation to theology and the arts is a slippery one. While sometimes a definition eludes, at other times it…
Journey Through Easter: Participatory Art in the Church
During Holy Week, it is common for churches to provide opportunities to enter imaginatively into the Passion narrative. Whether Maundy Thursday watches, Stations of…
Creativity as a Battle: Artists and Academics [Part Two]
In my previous post, I suggested three areas of common ground between academics and artists with the final being that both participate in creative…
Artists and Academics: What They Might Have in Common
Over the New Year, I had the pleasure of regularly sitting at a long dinner table with a group of artists, delighting in the…
Can good design save the economy? A Response
Those who watched the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics were presented with a visual display of what British art, design, and music…
Someone Like You: Music, Pain, and Sentimentality
For even the most casual listener of Radio 1, it is self-evident that pain, rejection, and love-lost provides a deep well of inspiration for…