Let’s get serious, do you really want a couch and a couple of dressers to keep you from what could be the best experience of your life? That question catapults Ally Vesterfelt into the journey of her lifetime. If you follow her today, you’d probably be shocked to find that just a few years ago, […]
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Few people have been loved in Hollywood as much as Garry Marshall, the man who discovered Robin Williams, Julia Roberts & Anne Hathaway. Big heart. Big brain. Great advice giver.
I grew up in a Church that didn’t particularly love questions. I didn’t have the painfully alienating experiences many of my questioning friends had – at least not until I got older, but my inquiries certainly made me the weird kid who cared about a lot of stuff no one else wanted to waste time […]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is master-storyteller Neil Gaiman’s new book for adults. It’s short (less than 200 pages) and straightforward: a man just past middle aged returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He wanders his old streets and awakens memories long forgotten. I’m not going to talk about […]
Civil dialogue seems to be a thing of the past. More and more, we divide ourselves into camps, turn every issue into Us vs. Them. Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice. Democrats and Republicans. Cubs vs. Cardinals. And increasingly in our culture, Christian vs. Atheist. When we polarize our positions, we eliminate any real opportunity for dialog. I […]
For more than a decade, Brad Lomenick has led Catalyst, the premier leadership brand for young Christian leaders. He’s finally distilled his 20+ years of leadership experience and his time at the helm of Catalyst into a simple, accessible and straight-forward guide to what it takes to be a next-generation leader. Brad defines a Catalyst […]
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Book: Breath by Jackie Morse Kessler
Don’t miss our interview with Jackie Kessler on the latest StoryMen podcast episode! You have a chance to win a FREE set of all four Riders of the Apocalypse books! What happens when Death gets suicidal? Thus begins the final chapter of Jackie Morse Kessler’s Riders of the Apocalypse series. The first three books introduced […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]