Koheleth
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Literary Studies |
| Location | City of God, Canada |
| Introduction | I am a student of Medieval and Early Modern English Literature trying to figure out what it means to proclaim the gospel - the message that "Jesus is Lord" - in a (post)modern university campus. |
| Interests | Theology, Reading Classical Literature, Navigating the rift between academics and Christianity, Literary Reception of the Bible |
| Favorite movies | Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Stranger Than Fiction, Pan's Labyrinth, Babette's Feast, Hamlet (Ethan Hawke), Twelfth Night (Ben Kingsley), Signs, The Importance of Being Ernest (Colin Firth) |
| Favorite music | Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Rich Mullins, Steve Bell |
| Favorite books | Of the making of many books there is no end, but here are a few of my favorites: Ecclesiastes, Job, Brideshead Revisited, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Wanderer (poem), Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, In the Ruins of the Church, Hope Among the Fragments, Most things by John Donne, John Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, George Herbert, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and G. K Chesterton. NOT James Joyce or Margaret Atwood. |
The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
I will, in fact, lose my footing. And then I will write a poem using this experience as a metaphor for the general meaninglessness and vanity of human life, and then, in an unexpected terminus, I will demonstrate that the human experience of being caught off guard paradoxically proves the trustworthiness of an extra-human God.