“We’re More Popular than Jesus”: Teaching John Lennon’s Body of Work in a Christian School
Almost six decades ago, in an article for The London Standard, Maureen Cleave, a journalist and friend of the Beatles, wrote an […]
“More Than Their Trauma”: Teaching Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians in a Christian School
In the early part of the twentieth century, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was a bustling urban center; it was a space where all […]
The Overwhelming, Never-Ending Silence of God: Teaching Shūsaku Endō’s Silence in a Christian School
In our modern North American churches, we often sing of the “overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God” to remind us of how […]
Highlighting Global Issues through Spoken Commentaries
“If you don’t speak it, you don’t know it. If you don’t write it, you don’t own it.” These were words of […]
Chapel in the Time of COVID
In my second year of being the point person for coordinating chapels at the institution I work for, I finally felt like […]
Where Is God in the Post-apocalyptic? Teaching Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in the Pandemic Age
You have to carry the fire. I don’t know how to.Yes, you do. Is the fire real? The fire?Yes it is.Where is […]