The Ring Is Scripted but the Love Is Real
God doesn’t always show up in church pews or devotionals. Sometimes he shows up in habits that hold you when your faith feels quiet.
Stronger Than the Ropes: Family, Fellowship, and Local Professional Wrestling
The independent wrestling circuit begins with genuine connection and a familial bond with fans: the spectacle comes secondarily.
The Wrestling of Gods and Monsters: Myth and Morality in Lucha Underground
Lucha Underground is less about sweat, muscles, and tights than about mythic storytelling—archetypal tales of heroes and villains, loss and redemption.
Jim Carrey, Worked Shoots, and Making Sense of Our Scripted Reality
Like Jim Carrey does in ‘Jim & Andy,’ we are scripting the reality given to us for a watching world. While perhaps this is unavoidable, we can aim to steward our task well and aim to be as authentic as is reasonable.
GLOW: Self-Help Empowerment or Exploitation in Disguise?
That’s the problem at the heart of both GLOW and many modern forms of promoting “women’s empowerment”: it’s false advertising.
5 Reasons Donald Trump Earned His Place in the WWE Hall of Fame
Many feel that because his background is in business, Trump doesn’t fit in with his esteemed peers, but I disagree; Donald Trump has more than earned his spot in the WWE Hall of Fame.
