My friend Shawn Smucker is a great writer. His brand new book How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp tells the story of the cross country journey he took this past year with his wife Maile and their four kids. They had no idea how much the trip would change them. As someone who just […]
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How to be Thankful When Life Sucks
It’s easy to be thankful when everything is going well, but how can we have an attitude of gratitude when life has us on the ropes? Like most of you, life doesn’t always go the way I hope. So how should we respond? Why is trust in God such a big part of thankfulness? Full […]
Part three of my discussion with the makeshift monster squad featuring Matt Mikalatos and JR Forasteros. Check out part one and part two in case you missed them. We filmed this last one as a sort of test webisode for a possible future podcast, kind of a pilot for a recurring program that doesn’t exist. Let us […]
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3 Short Ghost Stories
Here’s part two of my discussion with the makeshift monster squad featuring Matt Mikalatos and JR Forasteros. Check out part one in case you missed it. If you watch this video you might just soil yourself from fear and/or laughter or maybe just pity. These first two vids are just the warm up. Watch Part […]
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Why We Are Attracted to Monsters
When I was in the middle of writing my proposal for Undead I found out that an author named Matt Mikalatos would soon be releasing a book called Night of the Living Dead Christian, a fun story about how we often act like famous fictional monsters. Well, he did and it’s awesome. Last week Matt […]
There are headlines that make you do a double take, and then there are headlines that make you step on your dog, smash your knee on a metal file cabinet and smash your candy bar into the wall because there’s NO possible way what you just saw could ever be real. Nicolas Cage Likely to […]
One of the early promos for the original airing of The Walking Dead used the idea of how a person’s awareness of God would come into play during a zombie apocalypse. Of all the footage the producers could have selected to help introduce this new show they chose these 15 seconds for one of the […]
It occurred to me recently that the first horror story I ever read was The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not sure you’d consider a Sherlock Holmes story to be in the horror category, but I remember being frightened as I read. And loving it. I must have been pretty young […]
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For King and Country
Some of you know that I hang around the music world from time to time where I meet some great people. And while a lot of the coverage from this summer has appeared around the web (like here and here), I’m STILL sitting on some great stuff that hasn’t been seen anywhere else yet. Enter […]
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Television and Zombies
I had the privilege, nay, the honor yesterday of spending some time with Master Knox McCoy who I’m pretty sure was the first-born child of that most interesting man in the world guy. Knox’s new podcast Xtra Bacon began this month, and I was his guest to discuss an important topic in the most fun […]