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 […]
42 is the new biopic of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play Major League Baseball. It’s a typical sports film in that it’s inspirational and feel-good. It’s also a typical race film in that it’s fairly heavy-handed. Even though 42 doesn’t look too hard to find a weakness in Robinson, neither does it […]
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 […]
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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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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 […]