Part I I’ve been watching Grey Forge LeFey and Kurt A. Schauppner develop their characters in Edward Albee’s Marriage Play. They’ve been adding layers and layers as they go and are certainly ready for opening night tonight. (Most importantly, director Abe Daniels thinks so.) Impressed as I am with their acting, I remain mystified as […]
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I’ve always objected to the use of polite phrases (“excuse me”) as prompts–or worse, demands–for proper behavior. What brings this up at the moment is a discussion of parents using “Excuse me!” to shut their children down. That’s not what courteous phrases are for. They are meant to be expressions of deference, never demands. “Excuse
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I call myself an “artist” because I think that art involves looking with an artist’s eye, and I do that. I don’t think that “art” requires hand-to-eye coordination; I think it involves looking, and looking, and looking again. Most of the artists that I know are painters. Of course if you’re going to paint, you
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I thought I was finished with having to criticize this after the furor over the 2006 movie and book The Secret died down, but the so-called “Law of Attraction” has been coming back into conversations lately, probably thanks in part to my association with a New Thought group. The LoA is very big in New
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Reprinted from RFD: a country journal for queer folk, Fall 1995, #83. ©1995 KHLeFey. (This essay contains coarse language and sexual content.) Before I was political, I was “Political.” In my college days and a while beyond, I was a Religious Right evangelical, I was a card-carrying member of the Moral Majority (which was at
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A lot of people, when they start another career, leave previous careers behind. As an artist, I simply add to what I’m already doing. I knew when I was in the eighth grade that I wanted to be a writer. As I planned my life at Ohio State I was interested in music, but I
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I came out in 1988, and within two years I was working as a gay-rights and -advocacy professional. I was Christian-identified at the time, and religion was central to why it took me from age 14, when I knew that I knew that I was gay, until age 28 finally to come out. I had
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I spent a number of years as a Unitarian Universalist, and during that time I was exposed to the assertion that poet Edwin Markham was a Universalist. I now understand that, regardless of his church affiliation, he resonated deeply with Universalist principles, especially if you define the philosophy broadly as “inclusive” (a definition that I
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I have a master’s degree in theology, the one offered at my theological school that I called “M.A. Lite.” I wasn’t a biblical scholar or a theologian; I specialized in worship arts and pastoral theology; that is, spiritual care-giving. But I have a history of immersion in Bible study because, among my many church
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This is not new to a lot of people, but it is to me: a quotation by biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan, to wit, “My point… is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now
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