‘Now cracks a noble heart’: Hamlet and Political Hope
byWhen I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans,…
Christianity and the Theatre
Dance and Christianity
byDavid Brown has written, ‘Dance’s continuing engagement with the divine stands as a silent reprimand to the Church for so arbitrarily narrowing its own…
Faithful Imagination in Theatre: What We Can Learn from C.S. Lewis
byQuality theatre presented from a Christian perspective is hard to find. It exists in small pockets, such as Lamb’s Players Theater in San Diego,…
“We’re All Here”: Responding to Trauma Through Art
byOn the 13th of November people all over Paris were making plans for their weekend. They finished their day’s work, they began their commutes…
Transformations and Turnarounds: The Role of the Arts in Human Flourishing
byThe arts are transformative. For many people involved in exploring the intersection of theology and the arts, this is a fundamental axiom. It’s also…
Mike Daisey’s False Witness
byMike Daisey, the truth-stretching monologist, has apologized for fabricating evidence about Foxconn, the Apple manufactory in Shenzhen, China, and has changed the script of…
A Thesis on the Theatrical Turn in Christian Thought and Practice [Part Two]
byWes Vander Lugt’s thesis on the ‘theatrical turn’ in Christianity concludes below. To restate his thesis in full: Christian existence is a dialogical, divine…