My review of the book Life After Art raised some questions, so the author, Matt Appling, graciously sat down with me to discuss his book! We talk about what inspired him to write Life After Art, how Postmodernism can inform art theory, and why breaking the rules might not be so bad after all! Apparently, my internet […]
Author: JR. Forasteros
JR. lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Amanda. In addition to exploring the wonders that are the Lone Star state, JR. is the teaching pastor at Catalyst Community Church, a writer and blogger. His book, Empathy for the Devil, is available from InterVarsity Press. He's haunted by the Batman, who is in turn haunted by the myth of redemptive violence.
What if a teen girl who struggled with an eating disorder suddenly became Famine, the Horseman of the Apocalypse? That question was all it took for me to dive into Hunger, the first book of the Riders of the Apocalypse Young Adult series written by Jackie Morse Kessler. I’ve done a little bit of work […]
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How to Get Published
Listen, Rate & Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! The StoryMen talk about how the traditional publishing world works, and how to get published. Matt and Clay share their journeys to published authordom (authorship? authorness? authornity?), we talk how to find a literary agent and why the publisher really is on your side. Plus, if you’re […]
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Evil Dead: How to Remake a Classic
First things first: you might have heard about a remake that came out this weekend called Evil Dead. It’s a reimagining/reboot/remake of The Evil Dead, the first film of one of the greatest cult trilogies of all time. Despite the enormous amount of pressure and skepticism surrounding the new film, director Fede Alvarez has succeeded […]
To win a FREE copy of Life After Art, see the comments! If you know anything about public education in our country, you know it’s in a whole heap of trouble. And you’ve probably heard that Arts programs are the first to get cut. Because everyone in our culture knows that Art is expendable. But […]
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The Crowdsourced Church
Listen, Rate & Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! The StoryMen talk History Channel’s The Bible, Lays’ Potato Chips and what a Church of the People might look like. In This Episode 0:00 – Get Excited! 5:45 – History Channel’s The Bible 14:45 – Crowdsourcing and the Great StoryMen Potato Chips experiment 25:00 – The Crowdsourced Church Episode […]
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StoryMen: The Crowdsourced Church
The StoryMen podcast I do with Matt Mikalatos and Clay Morgan put out our 10th episode today. Head over to the StoryMen page to check it out! In this episode, we talk about Crowdsourcing, and how the Church should be taking note to recapture the spirit of the Body of Christ we see in the […]
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The Warning of Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen took me off-guard. Studios typically reserve the first quarter of the year for movies they don’t think will make much money (because they’re not very good), so I went in hoping to be mildly entertained (like I was in Dead Man Down). But I got more than I was expecting, and I […]
My friends Brannon Hancock (Worship Pastor at Xenia Church of the Nazarene) and Paul Dazet (Lead Pastor at Journey Nazarene) got together to discuss Rob Bell’s new book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. I took a page from Clay Morgan (who starts a new podcast every three days) and set up a […]
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Beauty is the Beast
Remember that story about a handsome young man whose beauty masked an ugly soul? He was cursed, so that his exterior truly represented his interior – he was turned into a monstrous beast. That curse could only be broken when he truly changed, and when that change was observed by a young beauty who loved […]