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Ah…the Pleasures of Juxtaposition

From Joshua, the consummate minimalist

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Living in Lent

Historically, Lent is both a time of preparation and a time of longing. In the early church, it was a time to prepare for baptism, which in the midst of intense persecution meant preparing for death. You underwent a spiritual death and rebirth so that you no longer had to fear physical death. In [...]

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“Facebook, Roadside Attractions and the Atonement” or “Vince on the Cross”

I was allowing myself to be distracted by Facebook one day, following friend’s links haphazardly to see what quizzes they’d scored 83% on or what pictures they took on their vacations. One link trail took me to a photo album of a friend from high school. No doubt it was the photo album [...]

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Adolescent Heroines and the Unexpected Epiphanies They Bring

Last Friday, six pages into Suzanne Collins Hunger Games, I had a revelation: I spent my entire adolescence reading about adults. I didn’t read The Chronicles of Narnia until my junior year of college. I read Little Women soon after. Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quartet was a college graduation gift I gave myself. A week [...]

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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 [...]

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Tiny Movie Review: Autism: The Musical

Everyone watch this film
Right Now.

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Under Construction

Hello friends.
Though all my Bulletin Board of the Brain posts from Blogspot have been imported to this new site, it’s still under construction. Don’t be afraid. It will all be shiny soon.
Kj

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"If I Read Your Play, Will You Promise To Stop Writing Them?"

This is my third year reviewing submissions for a playwrights’ residency program in NY. Every year I wait excitedly for my packet of plays to arrive in a giant manilla envelope. Then, every year my smile slackens upon reading the first line of the first play, wherein I remember that 4,999 out of every [...]

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"A" is for "AHA!": The Scarlet Letter as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Biggest Inside Joke

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
We all read it in eleventh grade. The language was dense, but we ached for Hester, hated Chillingworth and rooted for Dimmesdale. It all felt so dramatic and deep and dark, like moss on an old oak tree covering up secret messages [...]

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Like Muriel Rukeyser’s poem…

…which asks,
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open,”
this video exemplifies my belief which posits,
“What would happen if one guy danced with all his might? The world would come running.”

I think its as important for men to feel free to dance as it is [...]

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