Jeremy Posadas

Central Kitsap High School, Attended 1996 - 1999, Class of 1999

Central Kitsap High School, The University of Chicago, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary, Emory University

Emory University, Attended 2006 - Present, Ph.D., The connections between religious practices and political action.
Union Theological Seminary, Attended 2003 - 2006, Class of 2006, Master's Degree, How to use the Bible for human liberation, not Christian domination.
University of Chicago, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts

Scholar-activist in training

Feminist and antiracist work by Christians and queers, metropolitan demography, dessert, the internet as cultural transformation, religious congregations, community organizing, children's welfare, social work, liturgy, ritual studies, sunsets, ethnography, random postcards, nineteenth-century Russian literature, gender and sexuality, lakes in the mountains, traditions of radicalism, institutional cultures, organizational studies, Impressionism, equal protection, due process, constitutional theory, architecture

[first, three indispensable magazines], The Nation, The Economist, Harper's, [now on to the books], War and Peace, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, Ender's Game, Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Gospel according to Jesus Christ, by Jose Saramago, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Iliad, Odyssey, Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, Genesis, Isaiah, Tehillim, that is, Psalms, Nature and Destiny of Man, by Reinhold Niebuhr, My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas Gandhi, Apology of Socrates, by Plato, Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, Geography of the Heart, by Fenton Johnson, Corpus Christi, by Terrence McNally, Team of Rivals, Ibsen, Shakespeare, St. Maybe

Antonia's Line, Color Purple, Truman Show, Maria Full of Grace, Far from Heaven, Transamerica, Yesterday, Children of Men, Bent, Water, Hotel Rwanda, Gattaca, Memento, The Hours, Finding Nemo, Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Whale Rider, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Matrix, Best in Show, Possession, Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love, Shawshank Redemption, Wonder Boys, Dead Poets Society, Billy Elliott, Mrs. Brown, Luzhin Defence, Finding Forrester, In America, Legend of 1900, in honor of DKG, Hero, Brick, The Namesake, Black Book, The Illusionist, Day Watch, Night Watch; Volver; Stardust; Pan's Labyrinth; Amazing Grace; Elizabeth: The Golden Age

[a representative sample], Ravinia, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bach, The Killers, Joni Mitchell, U2, The Color Purple, Rent, Amandla!, Celine Dion, P!nk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guster, Palestrina, Latin pop, Indigo Girls, Ten Tenors, Fergie

[not much of a TV watcher], Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, X-Files, Star Trek, Brothers and Sisters, Blue Planet, Battlestar Galactica, [the new one]

Aries

I take seriously how little time we have in this life: the only thing that matters at the end of the day - and at the end of our days - is whether we have honored others and risked ourselves in relationships that create life for each other and justice in the world. To this end I aim constantly to eliminate more of what's unnecessary, petty, or fake from my life, and continually to add more of what's just, loving, and true. I invest time and energy in relationships with people who are engaged in living life passionately, doing justice authentically, and building right community carefully. I place a high premium on real conversation: I'm able to listen without judgment when friends or strangers seek compassion, and to help them find solutions that make sense for their dreams and commitments; on the other hand, I can get fairly ruthless in undermining poorly-made arguments or unaccountable assertions of privilege. I have neither time nor tolerance for media that lack absolutely solid analysis: e.g., I read The Economist to know what's going on in the world and I read The Nation to decide what to do about it. I begin from the standpoint that you and I are deeply enmeshed and implicated in structures that seek to kill women, queers, poor people, people of color, disabled people, religious minorities, and the Earth - and I want to move with you to the challenge of what we will do towards eliminating these structures.

SIX THINGS YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO HIT ME UP:
6. Say you had the skills to be a back-up singer for any band in history: what band would you sing for?
5. Imagine that your bedroom were in its current location but had a window that opened onto any view in the world: what sight would you wake up to?
4. Suppose you could have any job in the world: what would it be?
3. Imagine you had the ability to correct one mistake, error, or wrong - in history, in your own life, in someone else's: what would you change?
2. Assume you have only 1 year from today to live: what would you spend that year doing?
1. What do you think of Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx?