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(would provisionally ride for Sarah Ruden though she's on probation for doing a weird job on the NT)

one hundred percent

lol, absolutely

definitely bourgeois too, and very few would entertain a real breach of the social contract from which they benefited immensely--there was a whole genre of sermon trying to get people to do just that, always lukewarm and handwringy because the preacher didn't quite believe it either)

Absolutely. I'm definitely thinking of teens getting ideas of their own and not something they were encouraged to do. Racking my brain to remember whether anyone ever said "don't do street preaching" and if so why--but it may have just been a tacet assumption (the evs I came up among were...

was so strong and certain parties I can think of had such confidence, it wouldn't have been out of character for someone to try this (though to be fair I think most authority figures in those environments would have discouraged it)

I mean it's not not evangelical. In HS youth group and at Wheaton I knew people who were into 'street evangelism'--though the model was generally about trying to strike up one-on-one conversations with strangers and not public preaching, not in those circles anyway. But the imperative to convert...

Prayers up. I am at great risk of doing this to myself (deadline is October) so thank you for the reminder.

Legend. Similar spirit to someone like Sister Wendy: gently, gleefully guiding your attention and inviting you to hear what he hears. I learned a ton from him, will miss his voice.

Not sure, but it's crazy how little the WC broadcasts set this up. Gotta be millions of Americans asking the same question right now.

wanna know how I dropped these bars?

I really liked The Rehearsal, her first. Probably the greatest saxophone teacher in literature.

A delight on so many levels

this is what every damn Monday feels like fellas, join the club

Watched the Branagh/Thompson Much Ado this weekend, which sent me back to a foundational piece of criticism: hudsonreview.com/2015/08/big-...

a strict monastic work/prayer/silence regimen is probably the best chance for salvaging their souls. I bet many of them would even submit to it willingly out of a pervert notion this would be cool and epic. they'd change their tune after a week but by then we'll have thrown away the key.

at a certain level, sure

People who blithely insist there are no guilty pleasures have no truly interesting tastes.

Totally beside the point, and not what the OP means at all, but I'd say if there's any quality of action movies that can be identified in other media, it's extreme narrative economy--which is funnily enough a hallmark of Homer