Over the past year or so, much has come out in regards to sexual abuse in evangelicalism. Seemingly though, only certain subsets of evangelicalism has discussed it on the interwebs. I know from leading all sorts of churches on trips in the summers, that many churches have protocols in place to help guard and protect their students from predators. Typically, […]
Month: May 2014
Story Part 1: Mimesis and Story — the Art of Listening to that which Represents Us
The first time I was drawn to meaningful stories was in college. Simultaneously, in two separate classes, I was reading James Joyce’s The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Nathanial Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. The former, I “read” in high school, while the latter was not on our reading list, so both stories […]
The Essence of Story — Introduction
Two summers ago, I went on a road trip with a friend through the south. We cut across I-40 and enjoyed Memphis BBQ, camped in the mountains outside of Chattanooga, stayed with some old friends in Atlanta, and circled back through Birmingham on I-20 and ended back at home. In the middle of our trip, […]
Have you been on your walk lately?
A video titled, “Look Up”, has been circulating the interwebs the last few days. A teacher from my school passed it along to a few of us to check out. To put simply, it is a powerful spoken word poem reminding us about the addictive, distracting nature of the technology that consumes our lives – […]