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Somer Salomon

Somer Salomon currently teaches 11th grade English at a public charter school in Washington, DC, one of her favorite jobs in a varied career path that has included working for an economic development corporation , at a dot.com, and on a horse farm. Somer has an MLitt in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts from the University of St. Andrews, as well as an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College. She is interested in topics ranging from narrative and eschatology to aesthetics and identity. Originally from Virginia, Somer loves living in DC and being a part of her church and the city. She also hopes to return to the world of academia again one day!

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Summer Reading Recommendation: Gilead and Home

Marilynne Robinson’s popular and critically acclaimed novels, Gilead and Home are masterpieces that deftly explore deep metaphysical questions with characters who search for meaning…

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Community, Creativity, Criticism and Philosophy22/05/2013<22/05/2013

Entertaining Ourselves: Communal Creativity and Life Together

We used to entertain ourselves. Anyone who has read Jane Austen knows that in the evenings of the era, people would gather in the…

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Beauty, Theology23/04/2013<22/04/2013

Engaging Contemporary Culture with the Beauty of Jesus

Even if beauty is hard to define and difficult to pinpoint, most people in contemporary culture seem compelled to engage with beauty in some…

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Criticism and Philosophy, Culture, Theology13/03/2013<21/03/2013

Artists: Don’t Just Work; Be at Leisure!

As a current 11th English teacher, I often have situations arise that give me new ways to consider the relationship between art, imagination, and…

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nature, fish, wonder
Articles, Criticism and Philosophy, Culture, Theology06/02/2013<02/02/2015

I Wonder: Work, Art and the Deeper Meaning of Life

Having previously been a guest contributor to Transpositions, I am delighted now to be a “regular!” Although I began contributing as a graduate student…

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Books and Scholarship, Criticism and Philosophy, Literature, Theology02/04/2011<31/10/2011

Chapter Six: Literature and Critical Intelligence

Review of Chapter 6 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey.  Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from…

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Books and Scholarship, Literature, Theology12/11/2010<31/10/2011

Exploring Tragedy through Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Among the most powerful aspects of human art is its ability to reveal our emotional appropriation of crucial theological issues.  For instance, the literary…

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