Walking Up to the Border Between Private and Public

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Things are about to change.

When I first started memorizing the Gospel of Luke, it was unclear whether I would present it publicly. It was a sort of compulsion. At first, it didn’t really matter whether there was an audience.

But at school, I took a class called “Preparation for Senior Project,” and I proposed The Gospel of Luke Project as my senior project. It was accepted, and so in a way that locked me in to a path towards a presentation.

A lone actor on stage in a large, empty theater.
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It is the responsibility of the student to develop the grading rubric for their own senior project. Putting that rubric together, I decided to make a requirement to perform The Gospel of Luke in at least three different venues. This requirement will have to be fulfilled in the 2026 Fall semester at Boise State University, and so now, at the beginning of the Summer, I’m trying to lay the groundwork to make those three performances possible.

I have not yet presented this to an audience. The prisons are interested, and there are a couple of Catholic churches with some interest. 

I happen to be taking a Summer class called Career Hacking, from the College of Innovation and Design. It involves developing the materials and information necessary for an in-depth job search. I am adapting the class from a job search to the development of The Gospel of Luke Project. It is a great class, and now I am accumulating contacts to help advance the project. So the real push to get into venues will begin in earnest when the contacts list has been completed.

Things are about to change, in many ways. I will go from rehearsing a private memorization project to trying to get in front of audiences throughout the Idaho region. I have never done something like this before, and there will certainly be mistakes and wrong paths.

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