Insights: Phillip Allen

Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week our guest is Phillip Allen, who was scheduled to be a presenter at Theopoetics 2020.

Phillip is the founding pastor of Own Your Faith Ministries, a non-denominational church community in Santa Clarita, CA. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, a poet/spoken word artist, a professor, and a documentary filmmaker. His documentary short film "Open Wounds" debuted in Los Angeles in January 2020. More about Phillip can be found at philallenjr.com.

Insights: Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus

Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week our guest is Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus, an ARC member, a 2019 ARC Emerging Leaders Fellow, poet, playwright, and performing artist.

Brumberg-Kraus (they/them or he/him) lives in Saint Paul, MN. They are the co-founder of the House of Larva Drag Co-operative, performing as drag persona Çicada L’Amour, producing both small acts and full-length queer performances since 2014. He has performed at the Guthrie Theatre, Pangea World Theatre, 20% Theatre, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, and the Rochester Arts Center. From 2017 through 2018 Brumberg-Kraus was a fellow with Pangea’s Arts Organizing Institute. As a scholar, Brumberg-Kraus's area in queer temporality, queer and feminist theology, cosmology, mythopoetics, ancient tragedy, midrash, embodiment, and reception theory.

Insights: Julie Wan

Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week (4.30.2020) our guest is Julie Wan, an ARC member, writer, and community builder.

Julie writes essays, memoir, travelogue, food stories, and other forms of literary nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Arts and Letters, The Washington Post Magazine, and on public radio's The Splendid Table, among others. She is the nonfiction editor of The EcoTheo Review and a co-founder of Vita Poetica, which connects artists of faith in the DC area and cultivates spiritual development through the arts. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two children.