A Quirky Queer Quaker performance artist and scholar
Playfully exploring the serious worlds of gender, religion, and Climate Change
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Women and an Abusive God
My recent podcast productions have focused a lot on women with some excellent guests. In the episode Women in Wild Spaces, I feature Lilace Melin Guinard,...
Quakers and Reparations
School teachers and university professors often tell me how much they learn just by doing their jobs. You can’t teach something until you know it....
Quakers Today
In November we premiered the first episode of Quakers Today, the companion podcast to Friends Journal. It is sponsored by Quaker Voluntary Service. So far...
Where in the World is Peterson?
All of my communication energy goes to TikTok these days, and I have neglected this website (which desperately needs a revamp.) Ok and I have...
There’s Something Funny about Climate Change
Comedy has been one of the most useful tools at my disposal whenever I have tried to take on tough issues like faith and sexuality,...
My Creepy Climate Change Mixed Tape
I created Spotify Playlist, Creepy Climate Change, with over 250 songs from multiple genres. They each has something to do with some aspect of the climate...
Creativity Balance
Between puffs on his cigarette, years ago I heard Kurt Vonnegut say, Everyone should practice art, for art enlarges the soul. I am not...
The Bible folk they taught us to overlook
In addition to using traditional tools to explore a Bible story or passage, I do two other things. I use theatre to stage the passage...