I’ve always found it interesting that the Simon and Garfunkel reference to Daniel Berrigan (in Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard) is about Berrigan bailing the boys out of jail. Seems like it should be the other way around, right? Anyway, let it be known that if the powers-that-be would allow it (TOJ, I love you), I […]
Is anyone watching the NatGeo show American Colony: The Hutterites? I gave it a shot, primarily because people often ask me about it, and wow . . . it’s really bad. Like, really, really bad. It’s poorly scripted (or, I should say, the script is poorly delivered), and the tension, thus far, has primarily centered […]
This is why I love mutants: they tend to be a-okay with ‘difference’. Too bad it’s fictional. It’s rare that my reading of mainstream comics actually pays off in some sort of socially redeeming way. Other than the horrible films celebrating violence as the means by which any and all genetic variations deal with their […]
I was recently interviewed by Glynn Young who blogs for the rather highly ‘trafficked’ (is that the right word?), The High Calling. You have to admit, it’s quite the lofty name for a website. I feel like it should be in all caps, italicized, in red, and with an exclamation mark to boot. Let’s try it: […]
I’ve been in a big-time Southern mood of late. Spending quality time with the folks in NC while I work some theatre gigs is bringing the ‘Southerness’ out of me. So, that ‘durn’ is for you mom. I still contend your Nazarene pastor thinks it’s a swear word (you better not be dancing or doing […]
Several years ago I interviewed for a teaching position at a small, private liberal arts university located in the non-mythical Northeast. I didn’t get the job, but who wants to live in the land of ‘Unsweetened Tea’, anyway? Silly Yankees. During my first day of the eight-hour interview process (seriously, interviewing for teaching positions is horrific), […]
I was having a pretty stellar day until, oh, about eight minutes ago. I’d spent the afternoon surfing in the Outer Banks of North Carolina (my life is so hard) when one of my friends sent me the clip below. And as I’ve long told my students, “If something makes me miserable, it has to […]
The first volume of our three volume set in The Peaceable Kingdom Series is almost ready for release (June 1st, now make sure you check out that link for a suh-weet website). Below is a short review from the fine people at Publisher’s Weekly (note, this time I refer to them as ‘fine’ as opposed […]
In my Sex, Violence & Christianity course this past semester, I used Jessica Valenti’s The Purity Myth in order to develop some interesting connections between our culture’s fetishizing of female virginity and the patriarchally-driven dogma of purity. It’s an ideology, Valenti argues, that serves men as it condemns women to be judged by one action […]