Films of Finding Your Voice (without finding a dude)

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May 3rd, 2011

Once again, a faculty member here at MHGS, soon to be renamed The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, asked me to come up with a list of film recommendations for a class. For this list, the goal was finding films that show a young woman coming into her own voice/coming-of-age. Sounds easy at first [...]

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Sounds of Synestheisa: The Gentle Season

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April 23rd, 2011

Spring is here more or less. At least enough for introspection to turn its eyes out to the garden and wait for the tulips to bloom and for love to grow. It’s the season for music of pastel blushes and soft blues tinged with green and yellow tips. While all my seasonal playlists have some [...]

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Of Bears, Brutes and Lovers

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December 28th, 2010

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan My rating: 5 of 5 stars This may be the best book I have ever read or ever will read. Yes, there are my Jane Eyre’s and Jayber Crow’s and JRR Tolkein’s, but there is something about this raw, unrelenting, fairy tale-of-truth that occupies a space no book may be [...]

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A Blessing & A Prayer

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December 9th, 2010

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

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December 3rd, 2010

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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My Other Other Other Job

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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 [...]

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

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September 21st, 2010

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

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August 5th, 2010

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

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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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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