While Alfonso Cuarón’s film adaptation of P.D. James’ novel strips most of the overtly Christian images from the story, there is no missing the fact that we are confronted the tale of a miraculously pregnant unwed mother and her reluctant protector set amidst the most horrific violence an empire can throw at them: in short, the Christmas story.
Soul music spoke to the part of me that was unaddressed by my upbringing and education–art and music. Art was my own exercise and music was the world’s gift to me.
Over the Rhine’s “All I Ever Get for Christmas Is Blue” recently made the LA Times’ list of the saddest Christmas songs ever, yet little else in all of December prepares us to celebrate Christ’s birth each year quite like OTR’s annual quasi-Christmas concert.
Biola Cinema and Media Arts program is considered one of the top film schools for young filmmakers of faith. Their goal is to prepare our students spiritually, intellectually, and professionally to become exceptional visual storytellers who can compete and succeed with the best of the best in the areas of film, television, and digital media.
Join the student filmmakers of Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts Department for the premiere of their student film, “AWAY.”
Doors open at 7PM at the historic Whittier Village Cinema in uptown Whittier, with a dessert reception to follow.
And don’t miss Biola CMA grad Zach King’s cool video “IPad Hologram Setting,” It just passed 1.7 million views.
“The Coltrane quartet was like four pistons in an engine. We had to all work together to make the car go.” -McCoy Tyner
Writer/producer Kurt Tuffendsam describes his new film following the most unlikely convert in the most unlikely of places. ‘Los Traficantes’ retells the incredible true story of Esteban Mendoza Cruz, former Mexican drug lord, who in 1999 experienced a major transformation after finding redemption through faith in Christ while serving a 33-year sentence in La Mesa prison in Tijuana.
When women offer truth from the wellspring of their own life experience, it resonates… regardless of their gender!
C.C. Pecknold is assistant professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of America. He is most recently the author of Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History (Cascade 2010). His article is written to Catholics but is certainly…
“Telling people how to be creative is easy – being creative is difficult.” -John Cleese. In an uproariously funny and profoundly instructive lecture, the co-creator Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers and a host of creative ventures, shares the five secrets of a creative life.
“If you lack integrity you lack everything. If you cannot be trusted you have nothing to offer.” -Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International–a child advocacy ministry committed to releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty.
“Christian women fear being ‘outed’—that if our truth comes out, no one will love us or accept us and we will no longer be credible—when the truth is exactly the opposite.” -Lisa Kittle
Part 8 in series: Women of Faith in Leadership
Remember that the moment you hit “send” on an email, you’ve lost control of it. In that moment of frustration or anger, what you write will live on – and it will be in someone else’s hands.