Looking Closer
Here’s a look at the top-grossing movie posters of all-time, divided up by their MPAA rating. (Thanks, Stuart Blessman.) (more…) Read more
Here’s a look at the top-grossing movie posters of all-time, divided up by their MPAA rating. (Thanks, Stuart Blessman.) (more…) Read more
I’m a week late to this blog entry, but wow… Andy Whitman writes about music better than just about anybody I know. And now he’s posted a home-run entry about Harry Potter. – Yesterday I posted news about the new book on Mother Teresa. Here’s more on Mother Teresa’s dark night of the soul, from Amy Wellborn. – Here’s a list you haven’t seen before: John Wilson, the voracious reader who edits Books and Culture, rates his top five books... Read more
God bless Sean Gaffney. He’s been hosting auditions for his church drama group. Seems like a simple enough job, doesn’t it? Oh, no, no, no. Judging auditions is a very complicated job. And judging them for a church drama group can be hell on earth. Sean’s story will be familiar to many of you who have struggled with being an artist in the church. Here’s the riveting Part One… … and he’s just posted Part Two, in which he dares... Read more
Here’s Peter T. Chattaway musing about just how much Ned Flanders’ role in The Simpsons Movie has impressed some Christian media personalities. Is Ned *your* role model? (more…) Read more
Stereo Subversion has a new interview with Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine… Read more
Jesus has a very special love for you. (But) as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves (in prayer) but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have (a) free hand. – Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979 That’s the hook at the front of next... Read more
Kate DiCamillo has joined the short list of my all-time favorite storytellers, and this year she’s releasing a new book on my birthday! Not familiar with DiCamillo? Start with The Tiger Rising, a heartbreaking masterpiece, and then read The Tale of Despereaux (quick, before it becomes a movie). Read more
Here’s Thom Jurek’s review of Over the Rhine’s The Trumpet Child. Jurek, like Andy Whitman, is one of the music critics whose reflections always challenge, inform, and inspire me… even when I disagree. His review of The Trumpet Child is sharp and full of references to send you scurrying about and discovering the treasure troves that inspired Over the Rhine to make this music. He singles out a couple of tracks he wishes they’d left off. Me, I would have made... Read more
Best DVD news in a while! Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven is coming to The Criterion Collection. And what an intriguing development… it’s a going to have a new look. Can the director’s cut of The New World be far behind? Please, Criterion, please… Read more
Seattle Pacific University has begun hosting readings and booksignings at the SPU Library, and they’re open to the public. I’m clipping from the calendar here, just so you know what’s coming up… (more…) Read more
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