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

Friday, May 11, 2012

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 [...]

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, [...]

Podcast: Conversation with Dave Schmelzer re Faith, Culture, Hollywood and Ivy League @BasileiaLA

Saturday, April 28, 2012

On April 7, author, and playwright-turned-pastor Dave Schmelzer interviewed me for a podcast posted 4/19 on his website: Not The Religious Type, on the Blue Ocean platform. It was a great experience, and I really want you to listen to it. However, first I’d like you to know a few things about Dave and his [...]

Christians in Hollywood: A Treatment, by Mission Impossible Writer, Ron Austin

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Classic wisdom from a classy TV Writer and Man of God by Ron Austin This article is a revised version of a speech given at a conference concerning the role of Christians in the entertainment industry, sponsored by the Act One screenwriting program held at the Mears Center of Hollywood Presbyterian Church nearly a decade ago. [...]

Waiting on the Sun, by Patrick Wood

Monday, April 23, 2012

Answering God’s faith-building call By Patrick Wood Called to Hollywood? It wasn’t that I had a difficult time believing Dr. Stratton had, in fact, received such a command from the Lord. His ability to hear from God—an area I hoped to grow in myself as a young grad student—is what drew me to pursue a mentoring [...]

The Zacchaeus Generation: Identity, Community, and Seeing, by Mike Friesen

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Part 9 in series How Millennials Who Gave up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by Mike Friesen Our identities are ultimately dictated by our relationships. We are the byproduct of whom we commune with. When we look at what people become, they often have a worldview that kind of looks like their parents‘, [...]

15 Reasons I Left Church, by Rachel Held Evans

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Part 6 in series How Millennials Who Gave Up on “Church” are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. “We aren’t looking for a faith that provides all the answers; we’re looking for one in which we are free to ask the questions.” – Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town, p. 204 by Rachel Held Evans Eight million twenty-somethings [...]

Four More (BIG) Reasons Young Adults Quit Church, by Christian Piatt

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Part 5 in series A Place of Our Own: How Millennials Who Have Given Up on “Church” are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community by Christian Piatt There has been a surprisingly positive response to the article I published yesterday: “Seven Reasons Why Young Adults Quit Church.” And as I noted, it was hardly a comprehensive list. There [...]

Prodigals, Nomads and Exiles: Five Myths about Why Millennials are Leaving the Church, by David Kinnaman

Monday, April 2, 2012

Part 3 in series A Place of Our Own: How Millennials Who Have Given Up on “Church” are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by David Kinnaman The Barna Group team spent much of the last five years exploring the lives of young people who drop out of church. The research provides many insights into the spiritual journeys of [...]

You Lost Me: Six Reasons Millennial Christians are Leaving The Church, by David Kinnaman

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Part 2 in series How Millennials Who Gave Up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by David Kinnaman A five-year project I headed as president of the Barna Group explores the opportunities and challenges of faith development among teens and young adults within a rapidly shifting culture. The findings of the research are included [...]