Here I am. My first guest contributor spot on Huffington Post Live.
A few things – I like the pure colonizer who says Appalachian wrong. There is a right way to say it. Also, nice that outsiders, once again, want to rush in and save us.
Sorry, not for continuing the narrative on that part.
Wish I could have said more, I guess.

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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
Website: → Unsettled Christianity