With insulting humor directed at celebrities and at the event itself, Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais may not have impressed many of the attendees, but he scored with one demographic: political conservatives.
Michael Warren, Legendary TV Writer and Producer, Shares His Greatest Influences
Michael Warren, prolific TV Producer and Writer for shows such as Happy Days, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, and Step by Step shares his 15 greatest cultural influencers.
Rebuilding Haiti One Child at a Time
As Haiti rises from the rubble it is time to think about tangible ways for individuals to make a long-term impact. One strategy already bearing fruit is assisting Haiti’s social reconstruction one child at a time through child sponsorship.
Buried in Haiti rubble: 64 Hours of Unshaken Faith
In his new book, Unshaken, filmmaker and Compassion worker @Dan Woolley (one of my former students) describes his work in Haiti and the nearly three days he spent trapped in an elevator shaft beneath six stories of rubble.
Haiti One Year Later: The Quake and Haitian Spirituality, by Gerald Murray in Q
Few stories focused on the spiritual response of the Haitian people to the enormous disaster. But to understand the spiritual dimension of these events, one would need to know a little bit about the people.
Sheryl J. Anderson, TV Writer and Novelist: Authors Who Influenced Me
Television writer (Charmed, Flash Gordon, Dave’s World) and novelist (Killer Heels) Sheryl J. Anderson, offers her unique “Fab 15”–authors who have most deeply influenced her life.
A Guy Walks into a Bar… and Plants a Church!
“Jesus said we’re supposed to be a light to the world. What better place to do that than at a bar?”
Two Handed Warrior Books of the Decade, by Gary & Sue Stratton
Sue and I put our heads together over dinner at Outback last night and came up with our own twenty (popular) books on the two themes of Two Handed Warriors—Culture Making and Faith Building.
Ten Most Beautiful Books I Read During the Last Decade, by Margaret Feinberg
Margaret Feinberg, prolific author whose books include Scouting the Divine and the critically-acclaimed The Organic God offers her top ten books of the past decade.
Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Last Decade: Q Article by Andy Crouch
One of my favorite social commentators, Andy Crouch, offers a wonderful piece in Q listing the Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Last Decade: Ten trends in North American culture “that accelerated dramatically in the 2000s—almost always for better…
Top Posts of the Year: Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God
Responses to THW’s #2 Blog Post of the Year–Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God–revealed the depth of angst out there balance the desire to maximize the potentialities of the electronic age without being drawn into the “dark side” of self-promotion.
Top Blog Posts of 2010: Casablanca and the Four Levels of Worldview
Most popular Blog Post of the Year–Casablanca and the Four Levels of Worldview: Why Everyone Meets at Rick’s–evoked a solid conversation with screenwriting experts, Jim Hull, Key Payton, and Stanley D. Williams. it was fascinating to see how concepts that my worldview students found helpful really did apply to real live screenwriters.