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Little Did She Know…

Late at night, Friday April 15, I wrote yet another post about the many businesses in my adopted neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne that were closing their doors. What I could never have predicted, is that only 12 hours later, I would receive notice that the place where I’ve worked since 2006, the entire reason [...]

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A Blessing & A Prayer

Today was the final day of BTI 501 Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task at MHGS where I had the honor and privilege of assisting Prof. Dwight Friesen these past four months. Here’s the benediction I offered the students at the end of their first term of graduate school. A Blessing A Prayer May you read [...]

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Why Hogwarts Matters to Me

After a year of living in New York City on theater-intern pay, I had run out of book money. It’s almost physically painful for me to read and not be able to write in the book I’m reading, so purchasing is always my first choice. But, somewhere around Christmas 2004 I applied for a New [...]

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NaNoWriMo A-Go-Go

It’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’ve decided to take the plunge. Though the goal for NaNoWriMo participants is 50,000 words by November 30th, I’m approaching more from a discipline goal than a word goal: writing one hour a day at least five days a week. I want to try on a non-academic writing discipline, [...]

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What I Didn’t Know About The Hunger Games Until I Started Writing This

It was the last week of quiet winter rest before the avalanche of my last six months of graduate studies would bury me under a black-ice glacier of chaos. I did my best to store up for the bare months to come by feasting on imaginative juvenile fiction: worlds, myths and narratives to nourish my [...]

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Reading & Writing as Heroic Acts: The Heroine’s Bookshelf

The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sometimes you love a book not so much for the new things it brings you, but for how it names what you’ve always known. Such is The Heroine’s Bookshelf. By profiling twelve of the [...]

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We’re On The InterWebs!

Here’s my 9 & 1/2 minutes on my Twilight & Evangelical culture research. Click here or on the links below to see more MHGS MDiv Integrative Project Presentations. MDiv Integrative Projects – Kj Swanson from Mars Hill Graduate School on Vimeo.

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When You Visit A Tattoo Parlor Alone…

…it’s inevitable you’ll end up playing Monopoly on your phone while your skin is purposefully wounded. Otherwise known as…I went to get my tattoo touched up (pretty standard for foot tattoos to need touch ups), and I passed the time taking video of the experience. Yay for Matt Sawdon and the crew at Sunken Ship [...]

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Life on Venus

This is part of my last assignment for my last spring of seminary/grad school. It’s an image showing my current theological space. I’ve been inhabiting a different planet for some time now. I could call it Planet Lent/Holy Week/Resurrection. I could call it Planet People In My Room Late At Night. Or Planet Not-Submarine. But [...]

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