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Rebecca VerStraten-McSparran is the director of the L.A. Film
Studies Center, serving students from Christian universities. She pastored an historic arts
church in Los Anegeles, and was founding pastor of the Tribe of Los Angeles, an emerging
church involved with the arts community. She mentors youth and young adults ranging from
gang members to countercultural artists and Christian college film students and alumni. She
is completing a Ph.D. in film and philosophical theology at Kings College, London.
(Bio dated 2012)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: The Dark Side of Beauty