Doomsday

Serendipity – On my way to class this morning, I noticed a table set up on Bedford Avenue outside of the Brooklyn College gates.  I stopped and looked and — lo and behold, signs and pamphlets and books discussing the Messiah. I usually ignore these displays.  Today I stared, then asked the people behind the […]

In Glorious Appearing, Jesus doesn’t seem to mind the color of one’s skin or where they were born. Everyone is spoken to in their own tongue, even their own accent! And we’re reminded of this more times than the number “7” appears in Revelation. It becomes a sick joke, particularly when Ming thinks Jesus is […]

I know we’re all about Glorious Awakening this week, but there’s something on my mind from last week that I don’t think we discussed. Apologies if everyone is already bored to death by Angels. Towards the end of the film Twelve Monkeys, Dr. Railly says to the older psychiatrist, “Psychiatry: it’s the latest religion. We […]

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there’s only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics. -Louis In Tony Kushner’s America, there are no angels.   The America he presents […]