Shamanism, mythmaking, and North Korean comic books.

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Trinity, christology, pneumatology and feminist challenges and opportunities therein!

Ideas for my master's thesis: http://bit.ly/o160TY

Looking through the liturgical development of Wesleyan Methodists in their early history

It seems like our school email system has been down for some time -- webmail isn't picking up anything for a few weeks, POP3 is failing. So if you've emailed me any time recently, please use Academia.edu's private message feature or send it to http://iriscat.info/contact-sarah.html.

must... be... productive!

found this: Hollingsworth, AB (2007). “Spirit and Voice: Toward a Feminist Pentecostal Pneumatology.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies 29 (2007): 189-213.

found this: “Spirit and Voice: Toward a Feminist Pentecostal Pneumatology.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies 29 (2007): 189-213.

When one's research interests become from mere class assignments to obsessions, a scholar is born....

I may be dangerously close to entering a whole new uncharted territory: feminist missiology.

Both communal spiritual practices and art can be a powerful form of social practice to inspire hope in a deeply-discouraged population, moving the people out of despondency and into action.

As the Nativity season comes to close I am resuming my normal activities. This winter will be exciting as I will be preparing a number of articles for publication.

Finding a striking parallel between the Asian shamanic rite of initiation and the rite of ordination of priests in the Book of Common Prayer 1976 (The Episcopal Church); Mircea Eliade's observation may be influenced by Perennialist philosophy, which tends to draw such connections, however. http://ur1.ca/22q3w

Some stuff that I am starting to cook in my mind: henotheism (monolatry), tribalism, monogamy, national allegiance, nationalism, xenophobia, marriage, family... I might end up with an interesting paper for a peer-reviewed journal and even a controversy. (A self-aggrandizing smirk here.)

I must wonder: whether feminist aversion to authoritarianism is projected upon thealogical discourses. http://ur1.ca/1vhyu

a good start on the fall semester; liking the lively discussion on what a "thealogy" is.

has submitted abstract: http://goo.gl/Hq5q

needs to work on the abstract for a paper I will be publishing. Summer is both a blessing and a curse as it takes me longer to get myself motivated under the sun.