i just posted a piece on the eikon blog that i wrote about the intersection of faith and culture concerning the punch brothers’ 40-minute epic piece the blind leaving the blind. punch brothers is fronted by former nickel creek wunderkind chris thile. thile, on this album/track, is the most open and honest about his move away from his childhood faith [...]

so, at this point, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the buzz about or seen the newly released trailer for the upcoming where the wild things are. it’s made quite the rounds in the last 24 hours since it was released on apple’s movie trailers site. truth be told, this is the kind of movie i would typically not be [...]

man, this is good stuff. will ferrell. singing. about a bat fight. dressed very similarly to his character on eastbound and down. doesn’t get much better. (**warning: if you can’t handle the sight/sound of will ferrell—or any person for that matter—getting pummeled by a large man with a bat…you probably shouldn’t watch this video…or just quit watching toward the end…) [...]

WARNING: IF YOU WATCH BIG LOVE AND HAVEN’T SEEN THE SEASON 3 FINALE YET, YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ ANY FURTHER. i’ve talked about big love here at least one other time here on the blog and if you’ve read it, you know that i’m thoroughly obsessed with it. i blog about it, twitter about it and have incessant [...]

what were you doing 6 years ago? for me, life looked very different. i was yet to be married. i was still in college. i had little vision beyond the small church in which i was the youth pastor and i was far, far away from having a child, much less multiple children. in the relative grand scheme of things, [...]

ah, the love between a brother and sister. it’s a beautiful thing, especially when it plays itself out for the whole world to see on facebook. now, i don’t do facebook. it’s just one more thing for me to have to do (although, as a matter of full disclosure, i’ve considered it long and hard simply for networking purposes). christen, [...]

it only takes about 2 seconds of watching any news channel to receive a panicky reminder of the reality of the recession. likewise, it takes maybe half that time to be reminded about it at church. whether it’s a sermon reference or a bulletin announcement or just a couple people having a conversation before the service, the economy is on [...]