David Dark is an American

United States

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 writer

Writer

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, the author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons and The Gospel According To America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea, which was included in Publishers’ Weekly’s top religious

Religion

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 books of 2005. He also contributed a chapter to the book Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive

Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive

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(Chicago: Open Court, 2009). Following years of teaching high school English, he is now a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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. A resident of Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

Tennessee

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, he is married to singer/songwriter Sarah Masen

Sarah Masen

Sarah Masen is a singer/songwriter originally from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, but has for several years lived in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, author David Dark, and their three children. Initially signed to Charlie Peacock's re:think label, and subsequently to Word, she is now...

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Notable Appearances

• David Dark has four times presented at the Festival of Faith and Music at Calvin College
  Calvin College
  Calvin College is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin College is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed tradition of Protestantism...
  
  in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was a workshop speaker in 2003 and 2009, and the keynote speaker at the 2005 and 2007 events.

Published works

• Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons (2002, Brazos Press)
• The Gospel According To America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea (2005)
• The Sacredness of Questioning Everything (2009, Zondervan)

External links

• David Dark's Blogspot
• Dark Interviewed by Ray Waddle
• Coverage in Publishers' Weekly
• Review of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything