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• 2008

  Spanish

  English

  Old (ca.450-1100)

  German

  Ph.d

  English

  Contemporary American Literature

  Cormac McCarthy

  Literary Aesthetics

  Literary Theory

  Christian Aesthetics

  Baylor University

• 2002

  MA

  English

• Christ and Pop Culture

  At Patheos Evangelical

  Richard Clark shares his attempt to discuss and think rightly about the common knowledge of our age.

  Christ and Pop Culture

  Co-founded Public Faith with Michael Wear. The project is currently being worked on by Wear.

  Public Faith

  Leadership Council

  The AND Campaign

  Publishing

  Copy Editing

  Nonprofits

  Curriculum Development

  Blogging

  Social Media

  Editing

  Literary Criticism

  English Literature

  Teaching

  Proofreading

  Literature

  Creative Writing

  Public Speaking

  Books

  Research

  Higher Education

  Teaching Writing

  Curriculum Design

  American Literature

  I'LL WRITE TIL I'M RIGHT WITH GOD

  A longform feature on the subversive genius of Kendrick Lamar.

  I'LL WRITE TIL I'M RIGHT WITH GOD

  One of the most perplexing characters in Flann O’Brien’s strange and nonsensical novel The Third Policeman is the titular character

  Policeman Fox. Given that Fox seems to play a very minor role in the novel

  it is odd that O’Brien would title his novel after the policeman. This essay argues that Fox is the titular character because of his central role in the resolution of the novel’s main conflicts. First it establishes that one of the main conflicts in the text is the narrator’s lack of remorse or punishment over Mathers’s death. Then

  it shows how Fox is instrumental in guiding the narrator to an inchoate acknowledgment of his crime

  revealing the location of the blackbox

  and initiating the eternal cycle of punishment.

  The Third Policeman in The Third Policeman: A Question of Titles in Flann O’Brien’s Novel

  By investing in and running early childhood intervention programs with in-home visits

  the Church in the United States could dramatically affect some of the most crippling problems facing our country while simultaneously fulfilling our duty to care for the poor and needy and to share the Gospel. And we could do all this by working to promote traditionally conservative and Christian ideals.

  The Coming Class Crisis: Why the US Church Should Invest in Early Childhood Education

  Original Sin is Problematic

  We live in a distracted

  secular age.\nThese two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits―and devices―that distract and \"buffer\" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls \"a secular age\"―an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work

  Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends

  and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow

  it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual

  ecclesial

  and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination

  calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.

  Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

  The Evangelical Persecution Complex

  Why Evangelicals Are Wary of the Government

  Evangelicals are beginning to care less about discerning good cultural objects and care more about discerning good cultural practices. But is this trend

  despite its signaling a cultural maturation

  still susceptible to legalism?

  Becoming a Slave Again to Edifying Habits

  \tAt the heart of McCarthy's novel resides a tremendous interpretive challenge: how can we reconcile the ending

  which is hopeful about the future

  with the fatalism that dominates the text? This paper explores how Søren Kierkegaard's treatment of Abraham and Isaac

  found in his work

  Fear and Trembling

  can help elucidate the tension between hope and nihilism in The Road. Based on a note referring to Kierkegaard found in an early draft of McCarthy’s novel

  this paper argues that the father in The Road displays an absurd faith in goodness and the future which can be best explained in relation to Kierkegaard's depiction of Abraham’s faith in Fear and Trembling.

  The Absurdity of Hope in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

  Two defining features of Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing are the vatic speeches given by characters with very different worldviews and cultures and the polyphonic narrative. A challenge of this novel is how to relate these features. According to Mikhail Bakhtin

  a truly polyphonic novel allows for “diversity of social speech types

  ” but many of the most significant speeches in The Crossing share the same voice: the vatic style identified with the narrator. This paper explores how the repeated intrusion of the narrator’s voice upon the speeches of various characters affects a Bakhtinian reading of The Crossing. Specifically

  it argues that these intrusions

  which alter the words and therefore the worldviews of the characters

  represent the narrator’s voice entering into the discourse of the novel on being and narrative. Thus

  the narrator stifles the heteroglossia of the language of certain characters even as he contributes to the novel’s dialogic nature.

  Narrative

  Being

  and the Dialogic Novel: The Problem of Discourse and Language in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing

  Is Evangelical Morality Still Acceptable in America?

  A critical analysis of news coverage and commentary on the \"knockout game\" \"trend\" and its history. Quoted

  cited

  or linked to by Slate

  Business Insider

  The Sidney Hillman Foundation

  Inlander

  Philadelphia City Paper

  CBS St. Louis

  and USA Today.

  The Knockout Game Myth and its Racist Roots

  Every other week

  Christ and Pop Culture delivers six or seven pieces that will help you identify crucial trends

  events

  and cultural artifacts and examine them purposefully. Every issue will feature two in-depth features

  a handful of shorter articles

  and recommendations of movies

  music

  games

  and other cultural items that interest us.

  O. Alan

  Noble

  Antelope Valley College

  Christ and Pop Culture

  Baylor University

  Christ and Pop Culture at Patheos

  Inc.

  Oklahoma Baptist University

  Freelance Writer

  Edit articles

  manage writers and associate editors

  run the site

  make decisions about content and direction of the site

  write columns

  develop and improve brand

  manage social media presence.\n\nI also am the managing editor of our iOS App

  Christ and Pop Culture Magazine

  with 29th Street Publishing.

  Christ and Pop Culture at Patheos

  Inc.

  Christ and Pop Culture

  www.christandpopculture.com

  Edit articles

  manage writers and associate editors

  run the new site

  make decisions about content and direction of the site

  write columns

  develop and improve brand

  manage social media presence.\n\nI do this all at our new location: ChristandPopCulture.com

  Editor in Chief

  Shawnee

  Oklahoma

  Assistant Professor

  Oklahoma Baptist University

  Lancaster

  CA

  Eng 099 Intermediate Composition \nEng 101 Freshman Composition\nEng 102 Freshman Composition II

  Introduction to Literature

  Adjunct Composition Instructor

  Antelope Valley College

  Waco

  TX

  English 1302: Thinking

  Reading

  and Writing

  \nEnglish 1304: Thinking

  Writing

  and Research\nEnglish 2304: American Literature

  Teacher of Record

  Baylor University

  Edit articles

  manage writers and associate editors

  run the new site

  make decisions about content and direction of the site

  write columns

  develop and improve brand

  manage social media presence.\n\nI do this all at our new location: ChristandPopCulture.com\n\nI also am the Managing Editor of our iOS App

  Christ and Pop Culture Magazine

  with 29th Street Publishing.

  Managing Editor

  Waco

  Texas Area

  Christ and Pop Culture

  I have written articles for Vox

  The Atlantic

  Buzzfeed

  First Things

  Christianity Today

  and others. \n\nMy writing has been quoted or cited in: \nNew York Times\nMTV News\nMSNBC \nThe Guardian\nDTS Magazine\nNational Post\nNewsweek\nBuzzfeed\nVillage Voice\nHaaretz\nPolitico\nYahoo News\nThink Progress\nNPR\nWashington Post\nThe Blaze\nThe Stream\nThe Atlantic\nChristian Post\nRaw Story\nNewsmax\nDailyKos\nThe Tennessean\nKansas City Star\nNational Catholic Reporter\nWorld Magazine\nInlander\nNooga\nHuffington Post\nSlate\nBusiness Insider\nUSA Today\nMediate\nHermeneutics \nDeseret News\nWorld Religion News\nReligious Dispatches\nBaptist News\nBaptist Press\nReligious News Service\nPJMedia\nFacts and Trends Magazine 
InTouch Magazine\nEthics Daily\nThe Pulse 2016\nThink Christian\nProvidence Journal \nConcordia Journal\nChurch Leaders\nIRD\nJournal of American Studies\nCBN News

  Freelance Writer

  Public Faith

  Cofounder

  Leadership Council

  The And Campaign