A Quirky Queer Quaker performance artist and scholar
Playfully exploring the serious worlds of gender, religion, and Climate Change
From the Blog
A Queer Connecticut Quaker in Pennsylvania Amish Country
I just published a piece in Liturgy journal. When the editor first contacted me over a year ago, he wanted to know if I could...
The Need to Transgress the Bible
In his review of my new film, Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible, Erik Hanson writes about his own need to transgress the Bible when he...
You are freaked out about Climate Change. Now What?
Regardless of how you might feel about David Wallace-Wells’ terrifying article about climate change, I have to admit, it has gotten some people talking. In...
A Conversion Therapy Story: Truth through Fiction
I have written an essay for the next edition of The Porch. It is about storytelling and how it is sometimes difficult to figure out...
My Sources of Inspiration–past and present
Marta Rusek interviewed me for her regular column, Words By Friends, the FGC Quaker News. Marta had questions about my Transfigurations presentation, which is now...
Making Movies about the Bible–Midrashic and Morally Meaningful?
In an interview with Erika Funke on NPR WIVA’s ArtScene program, we talked about theology. Most importantly we highlighted how theology is not simply a...
And Now a Word about Pets
Growing up we had lots of pets in the house. In addition to the typical cats and dogs, we also had rabbits, chickens, a lamb,...
Walt Whitman, Time Travel, and Climate Change
I have been reflecting on queer responses to climate change including exploring the past to learn from our ancestors like Whitman in the 19th Century...