One of the first drafts of my book, Dangerous Love, included an entire chapter relating it to my favorite film growing up — Star Wars.
Entitled “The Force Is Not With Us,” it was my favorite chapter in the book. Alas, my editor at Berrett-Koehler was not a fan, and it didn’t make it into the book.
When I launched my website, I included an edited version of the chapter, which you can read here!
A year later, I recorded my favorite podcast of all time with one of my former students, Tim Rasmussen.
He was working on a project for his peacebuilding Master’s program at Eastern Mennonite University called PopViolence, which explored the intersection between violence and peace in pop culture.
My episode was on Star Wars and how it influenced a number of key ideas in Dangerous Love.
We explored the Force, the difference between blowing up Death Stars and using Dangerous Love to defeat the dark side, and why Obi-Wan Kenobi is the real villain of the trilogy.
You can listen to it on Spotify
and Apple Music
If you are a Star Wars fan I promise it’s worth it!
Love this !!! Put this on a tshirt brother !!!!