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…
The arts are transformative. For many people involved in exploring the intersection of theology and the arts, this is a fundamental axiom. It’s also…
Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and…
Since last autumn’s Theatrical Theology conference at St Andrews, I’ve been mulling over Shannon Crago-Snell’s sophisticated and helpful reading of theatre as a metaphor…
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…
This post is long overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway. In a 2009 TED Talk titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat,…
Richard Viladesau. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, xi + 294 pp. £17.99/$27.95 paper. A classic in the field,…
A church service may look like a gathering of very ordinary people – with all our sins and weaknesses – but that is just…