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 […]
Looper is the new sure-to-be-classic Time Travel film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the younger version of Bruce Willis. Spoiler-free take: Go see this movie right now. The world-building is phenomenal. The plot is straight-forward, but still wacky enough you’ll want to see it at least twice. And time-travel is handled expertly, with some ultra-cool implications […]
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 […]
Click here to read my notes and highlights from The Meaning of Wife. What does it mean to be a Wife? Today, “Wife” is a confusing battle-ground, with women’s identity at the center. With messages assaulting both men and women from all side, what are we to think? Anne Kingston wades into the mess, separating out […]
Faith is a weird thing. We all put faith into different things, and most people think of religious stuff first when they hear that word. Here are three questions for you: Do you have faith? In what? Where does that faith come from? I remember reading O Me of Little Faith by Jason Boyett. He […]
James Cameron’s Avatar is the most successful film of all time, despite thoughtful and clear-minded critiques of its imperialist and anti-disability messages (there are also some less-thoughtful critiques out there). The picture Avatar paints of our bodies resounds with our larger cultural ambivalence toward them. Avatar demonstrates how we devalue our bodies. Avatar denigrates rather […]
Zombies, vampires, and many other monsters are all over pop culture these days, but did you know they are blogging too? Problogger is one of the most popular blogs in the world, and today they’re featuring a piece I wrote about how to fail at blogging. THE UNDEAD GUIDE TO KILLING YOUR BLOG I came […]
Fans of A. J. Jacobs and Matt Mikalatos, rejoice! When journalist Joel Stein (Los Angeles Times, TIME) found out he and his wife were having a boy, he had a massive panic attack. Joe, it turns out, didn’t consider himself much of a man. The thought of trying to raise a boy terrified him. So […]
One day I went to work at the college where I teach history and government. In a day I’ll never forget I stepped into an empty hallway and an unforgettable crisis. You can read that story, a sneak preview of my new book, over at Shawn Smucker’s site in a post called: Jesus, Zombies and […]
Guy is one of my new blogger friends. He does campus ministry and his blog is a great resource for anyone who works with young adults. Check out his blog, Faith on Campus and follow him on Twitter! In the mid 1990s, the movie Jerry McGuire romanticized the notion of a soul mate — that […]