Theology Collage- Literally

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 [...]

Living in Lent

February 26th, 2010

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 [...]

2010 Pop Culture Conference Rundown

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 delightful.
Here’s [...]

Talking Twilight, or am I…?

February 5th, 2010

Powerpoint sneak peaks from my presentation for this year’s Southwest/Texas American & Pop Culture Association’s conference. Best week ever kicking off next Tuesday!

Oh the power of correlation

The Woman Buried Under the Words

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 [...]

“Facebook, Roadside Attractions and the Atonement” or “Vince on the Cross”

January 19th, 2010

I was allowing myself to be distracted by Facebook one day, following friend’s links haphazardly to see what quizzes they’d scored 83% on or what pictures they took on their vacations. One link trail took me to a photo album of a friend from high school. No doubt it was the photo album [...]

It’s Official (Tentatively)

January 6th, 2010

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…

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

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 papers [...]

Rescinding and Revising My Notes From the Depths of Woman-Geared Christian Publishing

December 14th, 2009

The Young Lady in Waiting: Developing the Heart of a Princess by Jackie Kendall
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
***see updated review below***

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 [...]

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

December 8th, 2009

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 [...]