What I’ve Learned Watching Star Trek TNG Chronologically Instead of Syndicated(ly)

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August 12th, 2011

**While I’m pretty sure that by 1991 I was watching new episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation every Sunday at 6pm on FOX, and while I’m positive that in its 12+ years of syndication, I have seen every episode of TNG at least 3 times, what I have never done is watch the series [...]

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Where Am I?

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December 13th, 2010

Here and Here

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

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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 [...]

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I Really Need To Write About The Hunger Games…

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September 20th, 2010

…but instead, here’s David Tennant as Dr. Who. Get to know him

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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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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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Life on Venus

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April 14th, 2010

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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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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Theology Collage- Literally

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March 12th, 2010

For my current theology class, we were invited to share our “vision of the Church”, in audio or visual if we preferred, rather than writing a paper. I made a little collage which will really only make sense to me. I’m not still not used to being graded. Thanks Bennington. gotta click on it I [...]

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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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