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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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2010 Pop Culture Conference Rundown

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 delightful.
Here’s [...]

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The Woman Buried Under the Words

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 [...]

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It’s Official (Tentatively)

The first version of the schedule for the 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference is up.

They spelled my name wrong…
oh Twilight…

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A Peak Into My Process

By the fourth Twilight Saga book, my annotations had evolved to the level of audience-interaction. Seen here- musical notes accompanying the words “Projective Identification” — so you can sing it as you read it.

Singing about projective identification:
Coping mechanism?
yes sir.

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

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 papers [...]

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Notes From My Forays Back Into The Depths Of Woman-Geared Christian Publishing

The Young Lady in Waiting: Developing the Heart of a Princess by Jackie Kendall
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
a) For my research, I purchased both “Young Lady in Waiting” and “Lady in Waiting” assuming this “young” version would be directed toward adolescent girls as opposed to adult or even young adult women. But [...]

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Bring A Pillow

If you’re an MHGS student, or love/are-loved-by an MHGS student, then come this Thursday.

And yes, bring a pillow.

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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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