I’m Published In A Magazine! (ad)
If you happen to flip thorugh the latest issue of Relevant Magazine, you’ll find something that looks like a non-bifurcated version of this nestled into an article about the new face of homelessness, somewhere after the Matisyahu and Switchfoot interviews… (My ellipses are trying to connote irony, but about what, I’m not entirely sure).
MHGS marketing (Josue) has been experimenting with ads that are essays by students instead of the normal catchy image and hyperbolic quote thing. I don’t know if it works, but I guess the idea is to expereince a bit of MHGS and its students, even just at the print ad level. I appreciated the invitation.
I asked Josue what he wanted me to write about and he said “Why don’t you shoot me a few ideas” and I said “uhhhhh…a few ideas on what to write 500 words about for an ad for an interdenominational seminary/counseling graduate school to put in a progressive/Evangelical Christian magazine about pop culture? That should be…easy?”
But I shot him a few ideas and he suggested I run with the Shakespeare idea. This is literally the least I could say on the intersection of Shakespeare, hermeneutics and the gospel –so little in fact that I’m afraid it makes no sense, but Josue said it was okay, and maybe somewhere out there a twenty-something liberal-arts minded Christian gal who can’t decide between getting an MFA in Directing or trying out the seminary thing will decide to click on mhgs.edu and who knows what might happen next…(This is a rhetorical reference to myself, not a knock at Directing MFAs. I’d like one of those as well, if you have an extra one lying around)
Either way, it’s fun to sort of have an article in a magaizne (and get to toss out the word eschatoligical while also talking about the smell of popcorn). I say this a lot lately, but, Thanks Josue.
(Also-about the top image-when I realized one page was Hamlet and the other was the Book of John, I had an intertextual joy heart attack)
1 | KJ
November 12th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
KJ. I love it. Love that you’re at MHGS. And, so happy that your paper got accepted!!!
2 | Blaine
November 14th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I remember meeting you that Fall in Bothell. You told me about your time in NYC in the theatre. I told you something about my own life in the theatre. You, a director. Me, an actor. It was then I knew I hadn’t made a terrible mistake.
3 | Ian
November 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Kj, this is astounding. For some reason I thought I had already read it, but I sat down to look at it and was blown away. It is beautiful and relevant-particularly to my new experiences and new theatrical environment here in NYC . Considering my move from Seattle to NYC for grad school in light of your article and the comparisons you make in many ways affirms the connection I feel with you. I look forward to more shared conversations and ears being bent, eschatologically speaking.
4 | Kimberly George
November 30th, 2009 at 8:58 am
KJ! This is awesome. I look forward to reading it.