How shalom, common good and prosperity can come from an unlikely place.
Can Anything Good Come from Hollywood? Acton Institute Interview with Senior Editor Gary David Stratton
What Will Smith’s Personal Script Consultant Can Teach You About Story
Moral Premise Workshop: 21 Secrets to Successful #Story Structure for Motion Picture and Novels, by Stanley Williams The Greenhouse Arts and Media is pleased to present an incredible one day seminar 21 Secrets to Successful Story Structure for Motion Picture and Novels led…
Artists On Call in Culture: Responses to Wisdom & Wonder
[This post is part of a conversation around the new book by Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art, now featured at the Patheos Book Club.] Artists On Call in Culture: A Generous Mind Conversation Connecting Around Being On…
Friday Video: Joshua Medcalf @Pepperdine University – How Sports Psychology Can Change Anyone’s Life
Joshua Medcalf of Dream Sports Academy and Train to Be Clutch consulting is one of the more remarkable young men I have met in Hollywood. Watch these two videos and tell me if you don’t agree. Joshua Medcalf @Pepperdine University from Dream…
Mumford & Sons “Sigh No More”: A Missional Worship Album? by Bryan Belknap
Sigh No More is missional because the music goes out into the streets and MP3 players and pubs, straight to where lost people reside and brings them the hope and light of Christ’s transformative power in a language they can grasp.
Video: What South Park Teaches Us About Easter
by Mike Friesen What I love about this clip is that it exposes the sentimentality that we as Christians have been caught up in over our holidays. For us, these holidays have more to do with consumerism and consumption than…
Forget The Church, Follow Jesus: ‘Reverts’ Return to their Childhood Religions
Part 12 in series How Millennials Who Gave up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community Two articles in national media today picked up on some of the same themes as this week’s THW theme, albeit from rather different perspectives.…
Why Many Emerging Adults are so Spiritually Mature, by Todd W. Hall, PhD
Part 11 in series How Millennials Who Gave Up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by Todd W. Hall, PhD I work a lot with graduate students and some clients who are in the “emerging adult” stage (defined as…
Are Millennials Creating a New Religion? by Mike Friesen
Has anti-religion become the new religion of delayed adolescence? Part 10 in series How Millennials Who Gave Up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by Mike Friesen The YouTube video, “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus” (below) has…
The Zacchaeus Generation: Identity, Community, and Seeing, by Mike Friesen
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…
Four Reasons I Came Back to Church, by Christian Piatt
Part 8 in series How Millennials Gave Up on “Church” are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by Christian Piatt I’ve written a couple of pieces lately that have gotten a lot of attention about why younger people tend to walk away…
15 Reasons I Returned to The Church, by Rachel Held Evans
Part 7 in series A Place of Our Own: How Millennials Who Gave Up on Church are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community. by Rachel Held Evans So yesterday’s post, 15 Reasons I Left Church, generated a massive response, which I was not expecting.…