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With Prayer in the School of Christ: The Liberal Arts and the Knowledge of God

Sunday, May 13, 2012

For Jesus prayer and education were inseparable, because education and the knowledge of God are inseparable.

Friday Video: Follow Jesus, Gather in Missional Communities @BasileiaLA

Friday, May 11, 2012

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A look at one of Hollywood’s thriving Millennial-focused churches: Basileia Hollywood, average age 26 Part 15 in series How Millennials Who Gave up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community “Basileia Hollywood may be the only church in America where a celebrity can get up to visit the restroom and have his seat stolen [...]

Millennials Receptive to but Highly Critical of Christianity, by Billy Roberts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Part 14 in series How Millennials Who Gave up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community by Billy Roberts Bad news for churches trying to fill their seats with young people. A recent survey of Millennial values conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute offers little in the way of good news for religious affiliation and the Millennial generation. The study, [...]

New Study Reveals Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church, by Robert P. Jones, PhD

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Part 13 in series How Millennials Who Gave up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community by Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Public Religion Research Institute Pastors and priests seeking to fill their pews with young churchgoers have a tough task ahead. According to a newly released survey, even before they move out of their [...]

Fiddler on the Roof: Worldview Change and the Foundational Power of #Torah

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Like Tevye, the stories of Scripture provide not only fertile soil for nurturing reinterpretations of our philosophy and culture for a new generation, but also irresistible bedrock for grounding the story of our own life in the mind of God.

Staying Above the Fray: Leading in a Dysfunctional System, Part 2: by Todd W. Hall, PhD

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Part 2 in series Leading in a Dysfunctional System. It’s natural in a dysfunctional system to respond to negative emotions with anger and frustration. This leads to a counter-productive focus on the negatives. Insecure leaders often don’t see the horizon of possible solutions because they are too caught up in the negative emotion of the [...]

Screenwriting 101: A Step by Step Guide to Achieving the Impossible, by Christopher Riley

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The good news is there is a process to finishing your screenplay The bad news: the process doesn’t make the shoe easier to chew… by Christopher Riley Follow up to Chris’s post: Why Story Structure Matters, Even If You Don’t Want It To Back in the late 1970s when documentary filmmaker Errol Morris was struggling to [...]

Writing edgy . . . for all the wrong reasons, by C.J. Darlington

Friday, May 4, 2012

Am I ashamed of the gospel? A Conversation with Randy Elrod’s: Why Christians Are Creating More “Edgy” Art, and Jeff Goin’s, Are Christians Writing “Edgy” for the Wrong Reasons? by CJ Darlington In the last couple of years I’ve noticed a trend in Christian fiction. More and more aspiring authors desire to write edgy fiction. And by [...]

If You Live It, They Will Come! Better Faith-Based Filmmaking through Better Stories

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Telling (and more importantly, living) stories that leave a beautiful feeling even as the credits role is the heart of genuinely Christian Filmmaking Part 3 in series The Future of Faith-Based Filmmaking by Gary David Stratton, PhD “I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for my life, [...]

Why Most “Christian” Movies Suck, and Why It Matters, by Brennan Mark Smith

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Many Christians see these movies as a safe alternative to Hollywood’s immorality. Are they? Part 2 in series The Future of Faith-Based Filmmaking by Brennan Mark Smith People have asked me to write on this for various reasons, but let me say at the outset: my goal is not to mock anyone’s creative endeavors, but to [...]

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