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 […]
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“Best touchdown I’ve ever seen”
Scanning my Facebook wall, I read this simple sentence by my friend Ryan: “Best touchdown I’ve ever seen.” Suspicious that this wasn’t a sudden push for NFL football in the midst of the off season, I clicked the link. If you don’t like to cry in front of people, er, I mean get stuff in both […]
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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Seeing Dead People
Ministry Matters recently ran an excerpt from my book Undead. It’s actually one of the most meaningful passages in the entire book. Here’s an excerpt: “An old friend of mine named Dave died recently. Cancer. He was my age, a great guy with a heart you could feel and a smile that made you believe. […]
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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 […]