Commentary

"Bare" builds on the Shakespearian framework of the forbidden love, and explores the seven deadly sins, as they occur in a private Catholic high school. The limited dialog is stark and raw (mirroring conversations I’ve overheard in Spokane public school hallways – where no words or topics appear to be taboo), while the lyrics and music pull emotions along a full continuum.

I am not my body. My body and I are one and the same. I do not like to consider myself an assemblage of parts. And yet, if I am, and cannot avoid the consideration of that fact—that I am an assemblage of parts—any so-called ‘spirituality of the body’ would have to modulate in that modular way.

Sometimes I wonder if God hides our sinfulness from each other so we can stand to be around one another

With the widespread passage of such bills and efforts to have Roe v. Wade overturned by the now conservative-majority Supreme Court, it is worth considering the history of Jewish and Christian teachings on abortion and how it has become such a divisive issue.

I can tell you what the text in the Bible says about hell, but that text has been so heavily debated and influenced by cultural ideas (such as Dante's 'Divine Comedy') that to me, it often feels like one needs an advanced degree in religious studies to sort it out.

My friend has a sharper brain than some.