Episode 028: 10 Points for Emily Strand!!!

Emily Strand wears many hats:  author, teacher, scholar,  liturgist, singer-songwriter, and podcaster. She teaches comparative religions and cultural competency to nursing students at Mt. Carmel College in Ohio. She  writes and speaks on religious and spiritual themes in a wide range of popular fiction, film and television.  She was one of the talking heads (along with me) in the recent documentary, The Science Fiction Makers . She writes about pastoral liturgy and popular culture for her blog LiturgyandLife.com. She also cohosts the academic Harry Potter podcast,  Potterversity and it's her love  of Harry Potter we're going to talk about today.

 You can follow Emily on her website (emilystrand.com) or her blog (LiturgyandLife.com)

She's on Twitter @ekcstrand

You can find Potterversity on Apple Podcast and  Instagram

Emily also mentioned a Call for Papers, for a collection about Star Wars and Star Trek she’s co-editing. If you're interested in submitting a proposal, go HERE

Episode 027: Star gating with Hannah Foulger

Hannah Foulger is a writer and theatre artist with a disability, as well as an accessibility consultant. She joins me today to discuss her love of the Stargate franchise. I don't know much about Stargate -I think saw the Roland Emmerich film back in the mid 1990s ; but one of the great delights of this project is listening to people explain (with enthusiasm) why something matters to them whether I'm familiar with it or not.

Hannah started watching Stargate: Sg1 with her dad and has continued to revisit that series and followed the other shows in the franchise including Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Infinity and Stargate Origins. We discuss the tensions the show presents between the humanistic perspective of Daniel Jackson and the militarism of Jack O'Neill; the show's new colonialism" as Hannah calls it; how the show incorporates different mythologies into its narrative, and how the tone of the show has changed in later series, particularly when it comes to gender.

You can follow Hannah on Twitter @FoulgersCovfefe and on Instagram @speakstory

You can follow me on Twitter @mwboyce or Instagram @mwboyce to pass along feedback or ideas. I'd love to hear from you.

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Episode 026: Tall Tales with Kerri Twigg

Kerri Twigg is author of The Career Stories Method: 11 Steps to Find Your Ideal Career—and Discover Your Awesome Self . She's a career coach who uses stories to help people discover their ideal career and their best self. She's a TedX speaker  and a LinkedIn Top Voice. and is a highly sought after conference speaker. She's also my sister in law.

I'm very grateful she took the  time to talk to me about something she's a geek for: storytelling. We talk about the awesome stories her dad used to tell and how story telling has shaped her - from the tales she tells her kids, to playwriting, acting and teaching, to her work as a career coach.

You can follow Kerri on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn ; you can also find out more about her courses and speaking engagements  HERE, including how to buy her book,  The Career Stories Method: 11 Steps to Find Your Ideal Career—and Discover Your Awesome Self .

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