A Quirky Queer Quaker performance artist and scholar
Playfully exploring the serious worlds of gender, religion, and Climate Change
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Headphones On — My new direction for 2020 and Beyond
Since 2004 I have worked full-time as a theatrical performance activist, presenting original one-person comedies about the extremely serious issues of reparative therapy, Bible interpretation,...
Hey, Hey Joseph, What ya gonna do? A Bible Bash Conversation
Every month Liam Hooper and I get together to talk about Bible texts. It was recently my turn. You may know I have a thing...
Bigger Love — The latest Bubble and Squeak Podcast
While on Tablas Island in the Philippines on New Years Day 2019, I created a wish list of things I wanted to accomplished. This included...
Eleventylife: A conversation with Matt Langston
I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Matt Langston on the podcast Eleventylife. We talk about my new podcast Bubble&Squeak, which is also part of the...
Bridging the Political Divide. Is it even possible???
Now more than ever US citizens are polarized and at each others throats. With Thanksgiving coming up, some folks are dreading heading home and landing...
I am published! Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis
There is a new book in the world and it is bursting with wisdom, insight, and hope. Rooted and Rising is for everyone who worries...
A prank phone call to my very uptight former self
If you had the technology to make a phone call to someone in the past, who would you call? Why would you call? To change...
HIV/AIDS, Climate Change, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
As Activist in Residence at Susquehanna University, I will speak to the Presidential Scholars, a group of honors students who meet monthly with the president...