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#ministry sometimes nothing is what you can do
Ministry is crying with those who cry, laughing with those who laugh
doing nothing with those who are doing nothing….
Sometimes nothing is what you can do
Why #Steampunk? Why Now? #analysis of #fantasy #narrative…
If you have been long time follower of my blog, you might be aware that I have a theory that with the advent of recent Speculative Fiction including (but not limited to) Harry Potter and Urban Fantasy the old idea that technology will ultimately wipe out all magic (as proposed by such classics as The Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and Wizard of Oz) has since been changed to the idea that magic and technology are parallel and coexisting worlds instead (something that I think THEOLOGY needs to catch up on…see full theory here )
So Steampunk, is our re-writing of the collective narrative, showing that even if technology had been bigger and more present in the Victorian Era, no way in the world would it have done away with magic…or religion for that matter…
There also tends to be good narratives inserting women heroines, non-hetereo-normative romances as well as developing ethnically empowering narratives. Writing the novels in such a way that they broaden our understanding of history
Steampunk, now, because it is fairy tales and technology…and people in history…we can see it better now….
Steampunk is the next step on Speculative Fiction’s natural development as it narrates itself through the contemporary world as it is today
What Church Really Is…(and what it isn’t)
Church is not about giving access to God, its about sharing where God is already at work in any and all parts of the world
that aren’t church
is it possible to be a sex-positive Christian? [part two]
What amounts to sound translation of Sodom and Grommorah…some day we’ll have a Bible that does it well
is it possible to be a sex-positive Christian? [part one]
Sex and the bible…the older I get the more sec positive I am
How to Get Run Out of Town in 6 Easy Steps
Thoughts of the changing pastoral role
Katy’s Ultimate Fairy Tale List
#fairytales list….did you know Shannon Hale’s One Thousand Nights is onsale as an e-book?
First off if you need to know anything about fairy tales I recommend references by Maria Tartar, Jack Zipes and www.surlalunfairytales.com, Jane Yolen is fairly good as well (although she is focused on feminist fairy tales)
Secondly, here are all of the fairy tale things I love
Please note that fairy tales are meant to be oral i.e rewrites are not only allowed, they are within the VERY essence of what makes up a fairy tale–so even bad fairy tales are valid
TV:
Disney: Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Tangled (although they are Disney-fied they are still valid)
Once Upon a Time (obviously),
Jim Henson’s StoryTeller
10th Kingdom (which is usually only about $15 to buy),
Fractured Fairy Tales in Rocky & Bullwinkle,
Nickelodeon’s Grimm Fairy Tale Classics, Fairy Tale Theater
Ever After (Go DaVinci)
Belle and La Bete (The Original French movie in…
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Beauty and the Beast
Theology and my favorite Fiary Tale
I may or may not own a billion different versions of Beauty and the Beast. (Plus some figures, snowglobes and plastic McDonald’s toys)
Why? Because its my favorite fairy tale. Why? Because its the first/best fairytale and it is so TOTALLY theological!!!! (did I put too many exclamation points there?)
Things to know about Beauty and the Beast which I have disseminated from years of study (no seriously I have been convertly studying fairy tales for 8 years. First as an “English” major at Oberlin, then as a theological student at Princeton)
1. It is the FIRST fairy tale we know of
2. It evolved from what is the last myth we know of: Cupid and Psyche (in “The Golden Ass”) written a couple of hundred of years after myths were in style
3. Before Christianity, the “happily ever after concept” did not seem to exist in stories….In…
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