An excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s (2009) The Year of the Flood, read by Stephanie Jo Kent.

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“The fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more and more, but not getting any happier. And so it was with Toby, once she’d become an Eve. She could feel … Read more...

An excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s (2009) The Year of the Flood, read by Stephanie Jo Kent.

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“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals into complex grammar, and … Read more...

An excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s (2009) Oryx and Crake, read by Stephanie Jo Kent.

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“‘When did the body first set out on its own adventures?’ Snowman thinks, after having ditched its old traveling companions, the mind and the soul for whom it had once been considered a mere corrupt vessel, or else a puppet acting out their dramas for … Read more...

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Rev Lindsey Peterson:

Before coronavirus disrupted things, we were inside of Lent, and in fact indeed we still are. Today, March 22nd is the fourth Sunday of Lent. Back in the sanctuary, I was beginning a Lenten sermon series that played with imagination and the practices of imagination that we need to tend our souls. The connection between imagination … Read more...

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Steph:

So I’m planning this event. It’s scheduled for May 16th. If we’re fabulously good with maintaining the six-foot perimeter from each other and not congregating in groups, self-isolating in our own homes, and maintaining social ties through social media, maybe, maybe we will flatten the COVID-19 curve fast enough that the May 16th date will work. If not, … Read more...

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Rev Lindsey:                         The old, old story of Jesus’ endless love, it doesn’t find us when we’re in glory. It finds us in the wilderness. The story of Jesus’ endless love finds us in the wilderness. We are in the season of advent. It is a season of wilderness wanderings, of waiting, of changing ourselves while we’re waiting, of preparing … Read more...

This episode of Structures of Interaction is an excerpt of Steph’s responses to an interview about sign language interpreting with Emily Ayshford, a journalist for the science magazine, Symmetry. Symmetry is a publication for the global community of scientists and engineers exploring high energy particle physics, which includes a Deaf physicist, Giordon Stark. Giordon is profiled by Emily in a … Read more...

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Definition of a Whistleblower, by Edward Snowden, from Permanent Record, page 238 to 239.

“A ‘whistleblower,’ in my definition, is a person who through hard experience has concluded that their life inside an institution has become incompatible with the principles developed in—and the loyalty owed to—the greater society outside it, to which that institution should be accountable. This person … Read more...

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Steph: This is an excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, beginning on page 182.

“I think often of what’s called the “atomic moment”–a phrase that in physics describes the moment when a nucleus coheres, the protons and neutrons spinning around it into an atom, but that’s popularly understood to mean the advent of the nuclear age, whose isotopes … Read more...

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Steph: This is an excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, beginning on page 178.

The term “MASS surveillance” is more clear to me, and I think to most people, than the government’s preferred “bulk collection,” which to my mind threatens to give a falsely fuzzy impression of the agency’s work. “Bulk collection” makes it sound like a particularly … Read more...