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  • Look Back & Look Ahead: July – August

    Posted on August 9, 2016August 6, 2016
    A look back at what I read and watched in July, and a look forward to what's on top of my to-read list for August - read on KateRaeDavis.com

    It’s time for a July/August look back and ahead! I’ve gotten quite a bit of feedback that readers like this feature, so I’m sticking with it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments! I believe that everything is formational, so here’s what’s been forming me. A look back on what I read and watched in July, […]

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  • Unity vs. Liberty in Captain America: Civil War

    Posted on July 19, 2016July 18, 2016
    Unity and Liberty compete in Captain America: Civil War . And in our churches. Read on KateRaeDavis.com unity captain america

    The competing values of unity and liberty are central the debate in “Captain America: Civil War” — and in the Church.

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  • Look Back & Look Ahead: June-July

    Posted on July 1, 2016June 30, 2016
    June look back and July look ahead - on KateRaeDavis.com

    It’s time for a June/July look back and ahead! It’s somehow only been a month since I last did this. It feels like at least three. Alas, the blog posting schedule does not lie. Most of what I read and watch doesn’t get written about. Not because it’s not worthwhile (though there’s some of that), but […]

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  • New Feature: Look Back & Look Forward

    Posted on June 7, 2016May 23, 2016
    A look back on May and a look forward to June - KateRaeDavis.com

    A look back at the movies, books, and tv shows that in/formed me in May, and a look forward to what I’m hoping to read in June.

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  • Christian Ritual & Developing Eyes to See God in Secular Culture

    Posted on May 10, 2016May 4, 2016
    Developing Eyes to See God in 'Secular' Culture - the processes of Christian symbol and ritual - KateRaeDavis.com

    Christians develop eyes to see baptism in rain and eucharist in wine; to see God in secular culture. Here’s why it happens and how sight is cultivated.

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  • What Bing Bong Can Teach Us About Christ

    Posted on May 3, 2016April 26, 2016
    Bing Bong Christ? What does Bing Bong teach us about the crucifixion? - Literate Theology / KateRaeDavis.com (image property of Disney/Pixar)

    What does Bing Bong have to teach us about Christ, the crucifixion, and atonement? Does he deserve the title of Bing Bong Christ?

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  • Mad Max: Fury Road: Looking for Redemption

    Posted on April 26, 2016April 25, 2016
    Looking for Redemption in Mad Max: Fury Road - Literate Theology / KateRaeDavis.com // mad max redemption

    Mad Max Redemption: Looking for redemption in Mad Max: Fury Road — and finding good news for the land and the oppressed.

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  • Mad Max: Fury Road: Witness Nux

    Posted on March 15, 2016March 24, 2016
    Witness Nux in Mad Max Fury Road - Literate Theology / Kate Rae Davis

    Early in the film, the war boy Nux cries “witness me!” For the rest of the film, the audience does witness Nux throughout his conversion and life.

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  • Mad Max: Fury Road & Competing Hopes

    Posted on March 1, 2016March 24, 2016
    Mad Max: Competing Hopes - read on Literate Theology / Kate Rae Davis

    Mad Max: Fury Road is essentially about different types of hope. The narrative sets up two competing forms of hope before resolving in healthy hope.

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  • A Look Back at 2015 in Movies

    Posted on January 7, 2016July 15, 2016
    a look back at the movies I saw in 2015 - read on KateRaeDavis.com

    A look back at the movies I watched in 2015 – and a request for recommendations.

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    About Kate Rae Davis I live in Seattle with my husband, dog, and stacks of books. I love well-told stories of all sorts, and I believe they have a lot to teach us about what it means to be human and to be in relationship with the Master Storyteller (one of many titles for the divine force often referred to as God). Read more...

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    • A decade ago, during a conversation that was supposed to be about a book I had written on politics, the British man interviewing me insisted that instead of talking about the products of my mind, we should talk about the fruit of my loins, or the lack thereof. Onstage, he hounded me about why I didn’t have children. No answer I gave could satisfy him. His position seemed to be that I must have children, that it was incomprehensible that I did not, and so we had to talk about why I didn’t, rather than about the books I did have.

      As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.

      But just because the question can be answered doesn’t mean that I ought to answer it, or that it ought to be asked. The interviewer’s question was indecent, because it presumed that women should have children, and that a woman’s reproductive activities were naturally public business. More fundamentally, the question assumed that there was only one proper way for a woman to live.

      Rebecca Solnit’s Harper’s essay on the meaning of a woman’s life is a work of irrepressible genius. 

      Complement it with celebrated writers on the choice not to have children, then revisit Solnit on finding yourself by getting lost. 

      (via explore-blog)

      YES.

      03/21/18

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