A young student, who I believe is an American, recently asked a question on one of my Facebook groups: Anyone from Oxford University- what is it like? I have heard that there are no general education classes, and that you work strictly on your major. Is that true? When I responded saying that I could give [...]
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Oxford vs US: An Undergrad Degree Comparison Chart (& Glossary)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Oxford on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dorothy L. Sayers on the Contemplative Vocation of the Artist
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Now up here at Transpositions. This blog will be going on hiatus for a while. As you can see, most of my recent posting has been at Transpositions, where I am now a regular contributor. I’m also now attempting to work 40 hours/week on my PhD, am producing two shows and acting in a third, [...]
‘He Who Loses His Life will Find It’: How Narrative Gives Life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theatre, Theology & the Arts, Transpositions on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My follow-up post to Wednesday’s post at Transpositions on the morality of narrative is now up, with a couple of very good comments already added: ‘He Who Loses His Life will Find It’: How Narrative Gives Life
‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’: Does Narrative Kill?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theatre, Theology & the Arts, Transpositions on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post is part one of a two-part post on the morality of narrative. It’s now up at Transpositions: ‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’: Does Narrative Kill? [Part One]
Towards a Eucharistic Theatre
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Catholicism, Christian Theatre Tribe, Theatre, Theology, Theology & the Arts, Transpositions on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My proposed dissertation title is ‘Towards a Eucharistic Theatre: Communion and the Moral Responsibility of the Theatre Artist’. I explain the phrase ‘Eucharistic theatre’ in my recent post at Transpositions. (Posted from the family ranch in Gove, KS – I went on my first cattle round-up today!)
To Share the Fruits of Contemplation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Artmonks, Christian Theatre Tribe, Poetry, Spirituality, Theology & the Arts on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently listened to a wonderful 25-minute podcast on In Otherhood, a blog which explores secular, interfaith, and art monasticisms. It is written by Nathan Rosquist, one of the artmonks of the Art Monastery in Italy, who is starting his own Art Monastery in San Francisco. The podcast was an interview with Christine Valters Paintner, [...]
Received like Christ: Benedictine Hospitality in the Theatre
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Benedictine Theatre Company, Theatre, Theology & the Arts, Transpositions on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post on Benedictine hospitality in the theatre now up at Transpositions.
Why the Unicorn?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blogging, Harry Potter, Oxford, Theology, Theology & the Arts on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Several people have asked me why I named my blog The Unicorn Triumphant. I wrote the following explanation a couple months ago and put it up on the blog as its own page, but if you subscribe to the blog via e-mail or an RSS feed reader and don’t actually visit the blog (which is [...]
Theatre R&D Research Tour Itinerary (+ ArtMonks)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Benedictine Theatre Company, Christian Theatre Tribe, Theatre, Theology & the Arts on July 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
You all have been very helpful in suggesting places and people for me to visit as part of my Theatre R&D Research Tour. My current rough itinerary is below. Please let me know if you are on the route and would like to meet (or know someone I should meet), or if I should adjust [...]
The World Over + Fellows Hip Interviews
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Acting, Geekery, Theatre, Theology & the Arts on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post is my first post as a regular contributor at Transpositions, the academic student blog of the Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts at the University of St Andrews, where I’ll be beginning my PhD in Theology & Theatre this September. It’s about my most moving experience as an audience member at the [...]
