On April 17th, 2015, I attended the Upper Midwest Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion. During this event, I presented the following paper about faith and doubt in comic books. Essentially, I sat in a room with respectable religious scholars and professors and talked about comic books for twenty minutes or so.
And of course they selected me to go first. Which wasn't intimidating at all for someone who was pretty much the least educated person in the room.
Anyway, if you've followed Wednesday Theology for the past year or so you will recognize a lot of these themes. Doubt has, in a way, become my main message, my strongest expression of my faith, and comic books have facilitated that expression and exploration. So, I hope you enjoy the following. I hope you appreciate the proper citations.
But why do this? Why go to the trouble to write such a thing and present it to only a select few? Well, this is pretty much an example of the culmination of everything Wednesday Theology strives to be: a legitimation, scholarly or otherwise, of the exploration of the intersection of theology and comic books.
Plus, it also gives me a sense of purpose to my life.
