Kj’s Corner: Real Presences & Adaptation

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June 19th, 2010

This summer I had the opportunity to serve as research assistant to Dr. Chelle Stearns for her course on “Theology & the Artistic Impulse.” This meant I got to give two lectures on the class material. (At MHGS we don’t use student TA’s due to dual relationship concerns- so research assistant is a kind of [...]

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Of Mice and Meals

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May 7th, 2010

Redwall by Brian Jacques My rating: 3 of 5 stars Continuing in my process of reading books for young people that I neither read nor heard of as a young person, I’ve started the Redwall series. Actually, my friend Tucker holds Mossflower as one of the most influential books in his life, and I want [...]

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Dialogical Film Club: Rundown 2010

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April 23rd, 2010

Next month will mark the one year anniversary of the Dialogical Film Club, which, considering that it all started because six of us wanted to deconstruct Twilight, that’s really pretty amazing. Here’s what we’ve been up to. And DFC members- feel free to amend my versions of things. I know I forget about 80% of [...]

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Time to Talk Twilight

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April 2nd, 2010

For about eight minutes, at least. Anyone in Seattle who’s interested, some of us from my MDiv cohort will be presenting our Integrative Projects Wednesday, April 7th at MHGS from 3-5. You would be most welcome.

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2010 Pop Culture Conference Rundown

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February 20th, 2010

4 days, hundreds of professors, PhD/Grad/Undergraduate students and very short food breaks = the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association’s annual conference. Ian Klein joined me in Albuquerque for another year of frying our brains with academic discourse on popular culture. We heard about 50 papers and drank a lot of smoothies. It was indescribably [...]

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The Woman Buried Under the Words

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January 22nd, 2010

Here’s a link to a paper I wrote that’s currently featured on Mars Hill Graduate School’s site for student and faculty writings. I can’t vouch too much for the the writing quality, but I can confidently say the topic is pretty amazing. Do you know about Junia, the first (mentioned) female apostle? If not, this [...]

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December is A List-Lover’s Favorite Time of Year

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December 15th, 2009

While I’m currently chained to my desk working on my last paper of 2009, due Monday dec 21st, i figured I’d encourage myself my posting my annual list of paper titles a little early, as proof to myself that I have indeed, on numerous occasions, actually completed the paper-writing process. Seems like I wrote fewer [...]

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I’m Published In A Magazine! (ad)

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November 12th, 2009

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 [...]

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Can I Just Clarify One Thing Real Quickly Here?

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October 28th, 2009

“…one of the problems with women taking full leadership is that it inevitably involves a collapsing of the distinctions between the sexes.” –Thomas R. Schreiner in his conluding statements about contemporary application of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, edited by J. Piper and W. Grudem. Wheaton: [...]

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There’s A Whole Chapter On Cannibalism And I’m Not Sure Why

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October 12th, 2009

The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature by Leon R. Kass My rating: 2 of 5 stars Kass’s philosophical exploration of the human need and habits around food, seems to depend largely on Western, modernist notions of self-perfection through progress. Kass appears to equate human civilization with virtue, (references to animals always [...]

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