My Other Other Other Job

October 14th, 2010

As of the start of this Fall trimester, I’m one of the editors for MHGS‘s blog Experience MHGS. As an editor, I’m mostly focusing on generating content by inviting folks to write about what’s going on: collecting stories and storytellers. It reminds me of my favorite part of directing theater: Casting. I love finding the [...]

Jet Bike Steve, Jimmy Fallon and Other Signs of our Changing Textual Identites

October 7th, 2010

In “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” today at MHGS, I got to lecture on some questions that have been buzzing in my brain for quite some time now. I am obsessively curious about and amazed by the changing role of text and author in a culture where, due to blogs and social media, we are [...]

Really Kj? Another Picassa Collage?

September 8th, 2010

Last week I had my first day as Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” at MHGS. Professor Dwight Friesen invited me to introduce myself using any images I might like. I hemmed and hawed, and eventually since it was a class about how we approach and interpret text, I decided to show a [...]

Kj’s Corner: Mythopoeia, Monsters and Jesus Oh My!

July 23rd, 2010

For my second Kj’s Corner in “Theology & the Artistic Impulse” I explored the concept of Mythopoeia as described primarily by George MacDonald, JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis. For part of the lecture, (screenshots below) I also used a scene from the documentary Monster Camp (see the trailer below) and the preview for the documentary [...]

William Emmert On My Wall

July 22nd, 2010

While at MHGS, I spent three years on Student Leadership. Part of what my particular team (Sacred Space) did was to curate the two art galleries in our building. The main floor gallery is for local artists and the upstairs gallery is for artists from the MHGS student body. For my final summer as a [...]

“Reach for the Stars” “Stepping Towards Tomorrow” “Graduating Into Life” and other speech titles I did not use.

July 21st, 2010

I graduated a month ago and if the blog has seemed quiet its because I’ve been catching up on four years of sleep and generally avoiding sitting at my computer as much as humanly possible. Slowly but surely, though, I’m returning to (or arriving) at whatever it is my life will be now that I’ve [...]

And That Makes 108

June 23rd, 2010

I just turned in my final paper of graduate school. I took fewer classes this spring and summer. The “extra” time went to finishing my integrative project (#1 on the list) and being a research assistant for “Theology & the Artistic Impulse.” Also, I did some research that spanned more than one class, hence two [...]

Kj’s Corner: Real Presences & Adaptation

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 [...]

June 8th, 2010

Do You Remember?: Exile, Identity and Prince Caspian

May 30th, 2010

For the C.S. Lewis class, four of us did a presentation on Prince Caspian. We focused on the novel’s theme of exile and return, viewed through the lens of Isaiah. Since I first read the book in 1999, I’ve been haunted by the image of the Penvensie children wandering around the ruins of a castle [...]