Joshua S. Porter writes books and also does other things.
(This is his website.)
Tessie's four-year-old son was attacked and killed by an alligator in the summer of 1991. A few months later, what she believes to be the same alligator appears in Tessie's backyard. Her family and friends believe Tessie is coming apart, but for Tessie, bringing the alligator inside her house is the first step in a cosmic journey to find meaning in her suffering.
For seven days, Tessie will walk the unforgiving road of memory backward through her upbringing within the grotesque underbelly of southeast Georgia, her years as the only female student at a conservative seminary, and her tragically short-lived season as a mother.
Part Southern gothic, part black comedy, The Great Georgia Dirt Dragon reads like Flannery O'Conner by way of Ottessa Moshfegh-a darkly comic and heartbreaking descent into love, loss, and grief-driven madness.
COMING OCTOBER 1, 2024
Have Christians settled for artistic bankruptcy? To understand Jesus and the Bible, you have to understand art. The art God creates and commissions comforts and encourages, and it disturbs and offends. What is art? Does it ever go too far? How should Christians understand, receive, and create it?
Joshua S. Porter presents a readable, literary, story-driven Biblical theology of the artistic and the obscene.
Josh’s music is most famously represented by the experimental art-punk band, Showbread. The band sold tens of thousands of records, appeared on the Billboard top 200 and the Billboard Top Heatseekers charts, and performed more than a thousand concerts across a dozen countries in a career spanning nearly two decades.
Post-Showbread, Josh remains musically active in his dance-punk outfit The Bell Jar, an analog synth-pop project called Church of Agony, and the industrial duo Annihilationism. He is one of the primary contributors to the Van City Church music collective, End of Death.
Follow Josh's playlists and listening habits on Apple Music.
Josh is the creator and co-host of You Hate Movies
The podcast where casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles argue about movies.
Teaching.
Josh has a Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies (MaBTS). He is the pastor of teaching and creative vision at Van City Church in Vancouver, Washington, which was planted by Bridgetown Church in Portland.