The Seducer’s Diary
Based on the Life of Soren Kierkegaard”. Along with Producer Barbara Da Fina and Co-author Thomas P. O’Connor, I am promoting this feature film that focuses on the provocative life and thought of Soren Kierkegaard. Inspired by Regine Olsen, Kierkegaard becomes a major source of existential thought and post-modern culture.
Jesus For Skeptics
Jesus is no dogmatist but a a skeptical, critical interpreter of religious and spiritual life. The springboard for this inquiry into skepticism is Jesus’ famous “Sermon on the Mount” and the “Beatitudes” with which it begins. Turns out that Jesus’ skepticism becomes the source of a provocative moral and spiritual way of life.
Thirst: A White Boy Reckons with Race, Religion, and the Open Road. (Memoir)
Beginning on Skid Road Seattle and ending with echoes of Skid Road, this white boy’s journey to adulthood includes family memories of the Dust Bowl, church culture, encounters with African Americans and Native Americans, lumber yards, gandy dancing, the call of academia, hitchhiking the open roads of America, and at every turn a longing and a thirst.