I did and chose a topic designed to either offend or bore, then discovered that teaching a subject is very different than writing about it, also decided to take the learning on the job approach (that's a 'no'), started in my usual charming slapdash manner, made all kinds of errors simply because I had all sorts of assumptions about the platform based on my previous experience with writers' groups, etc. I do want a platform for writing. I seem to be unable to not write and it's much more satisfying to have a platform. I'm not sure Substack is the right one for me, have to drink chai latte and wait. I do see that, with their burst of growth, they are scrambling to attempt some changes in the very areas that I found incompatible, so who knows"
I was thinking maybe some like "Notes of a Failed Substack Writer." What sayest thou?
Or possibly One Day in the Life of a Grumpy Old English Teacher
I hope that you will continue in some way with the threads in your Uppity Bible Women blog on Substack. I can understand the format/framework/feedback problems that have led you to cancel it (at least that is what I undedrstand--will the blogs be archived anywhere; good material.) BUT the content and your perspective on the important issues there need even more exploration/communication! Do you know the work of Phyllis Tribble?
Yes. Texts of Terror, especially. The way I got started on this journey, well over 30 years ago, With no interest in the text at all, I took a course in the Hebrew Scriptures as Literature only because my thesis advisor in 18th century British lit taught it. After a semester of watching those stories unfold, layer after layer, through the lenses of early feminist theology, the history of composition, comparative mythology, Jungian archetypes, I was well and truly hooked. Meanwhile, I left California and headed back closer to my family, wondering what I could do about it. And my teacher retired and shipped to me most of her theology library, ten large cartons, and l sat down, books piled on the wide arms of my chair and on tables on both sides, and I made a beginning. It took a full year and it has taken all the decades since then to continue. It is a bottomless text. I always taught it as a senior elective, one semester, and I had to turn students away because not many, once exposed to those stories, the best in the world, can resist. I have done it with a focus on the women but usually just working through from the start, treating the characters as characters. One year I did a 4-5 week discussion in adult ed at an Episcopal church that had asked me to go through and put together something on "Fasting and Feasts in the Hebrew Bible" in preparation for Lent and Easter.
Since Trible has faded from sight, my current favorite theologian is a woman called Elaine Pagels who did a lot of work with the Gnostic Gospels and has a not new book by that name that is fascinating and readable.
No, Dean, I never will. Write on! Especially when it's a story like this.
Actually, I'd encourage you to get your own Substack, because I know I for one would subscribe.
I did and chose a topic designed to either offend or bore, then discovered that teaching a subject is very different than writing about it, also decided to take the learning on the job approach (that's a 'no'), started in my usual charming slapdash manner, made all kinds of errors simply because I had all sorts of assumptions about the platform based on my previous experience with writers' groups, etc. I do want a platform for writing. I seem to be unable to not write and it's much more satisfying to have a platform. I'm not sure Substack is the right one for me, have to drink chai latte and wait. I do see that, with their burst of growth, they are scrambling to attempt some changes in the very areas that I found incompatible, so who knows"
I was thinking maybe some like "Notes of a Failed Substack Writer." What sayest thou?
Or possibly One Day in the Life of a Grumpy Old English Teacher
I vote #2.
I'd subscribe to either one.
I appreciate it. I need to come up with a publication that just allows me to rant about whatever occurs to me. All suggestions welcome
You're standing on it - you can make a Substack whatever you want. Look at the topic areas I cover here.
I hope that you will continue in some way with the threads in your Uppity Bible Women blog on Substack. I can understand the format/framework/feedback problems that have led you to cancel it (at least that is what I undedrstand--will the blogs be archived anywhere; good material.) BUT the content and your perspective on the important issues there need even more exploration/communication! Do you know the work of Phyllis Tribble?
Yes. Texts of Terror, especially. The way I got started on this journey, well over 30 years ago, With no interest in the text at all, I took a course in the Hebrew Scriptures as Literature only because my thesis advisor in 18th century British lit taught it. After a semester of watching those stories unfold, layer after layer, through the lenses of early feminist theology, the history of composition, comparative mythology, Jungian archetypes, I was well and truly hooked. Meanwhile, I left California and headed back closer to my family, wondering what I could do about it. And my teacher retired and shipped to me most of her theology library, ten large cartons, and l sat down, books piled on the wide arms of my chair and on tables on both sides, and I made a beginning. It took a full year and it has taken all the decades since then to continue. It is a bottomless text. I always taught it as a senior elective, one semester, and I had to turn students away because not many, once exposed to those stories, the best in the world, can resist. I have done it with a focus on the women but usually just working through from the start, treating the characters as characters. One year I did a 4-5 week discussion in adult ed at an Episcopal church that had asked me to go through and put together something on "Fasting and Feasts in the Hebrew Bible" in preparation for Lent and Easter.
Since Trible has faded from sight, my current favorite theologian is a woman called Elaine Pagels who did a lot of work with the Gnostic Gospels and has a not new book by that name that is fascinating and readable.
Thank you