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Jason Bruner

A Piece Torn Out: On Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness”

Jeff Sharlet This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers. New York: Norton and Company, 2020.

Nov 21, 2020

Nov 21, 2020

Freedom

The Palo Verdes grow thick and tangled along the southern edge of Papago Park. They sit in a sandy wash on the north side of a chain link…

Sep 9, 2020

Freedom

Sep 9, 2020

I spent the summer of 2004 trying to convert people in Matamoros, Mexico.

Feb 3, 2019

I spent the summer of 2004 trying to convert people in Matamoros, Mexico.

Feb 3, 2019

Tryna eat

Breadcrumbs is a collaborative digital literary journal whose goal is for contributors to create trails through the pieces the journal has…

Dec 26, 2018

Dec 26, 2018

Blessed are those who have not seen…

An excerpt from a piece of mine that was just published at The Revealer:

Dec 20, 2018

Dec 20, 2018

Being born again in the postcolony: Africa and the zombie apocalypse

“Africa is never seen as possessing things and attributes properly part of ‘human nature’” (Mbembe 2001). This basic insight from Achille…

Dec 13, 2018

Dec 13, 2018

“The Evangelical Search for Authenticity”

Certain strands of Christians — and not just those in America — have been inclined to think that there was a divine deal that was struck…

Apr 18, 2018

Apr 18, 2018

Good Friday

Sweating under the weight of the beams, he — early 20s, t-shirt and sneakers — turned and asked, “Do we try and make it?” A red hand…

Mar 31, 2018

Good Friday

Mar 31, 2018

I finally read The Benedict Option and I have thoughts

So I finished The Benedict Option and I have thoughts.

Jan 13, 2018

Jan 13, 2018

Pull and release to update

Something is broken

Oct 6, 2017

Oct 6, 2017

Jason Bruner

Jason Bruner

Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Historian, ethnographer, writer, photographer.

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