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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…