About once a month, I treat myself to a little something I like to call No-Hat Day.  No-Hat Day is when I temporarily cast off all the roles I try to fill in my life and do something that is purely me in the moment.  For a few hours, I’m neither doting mother nor dutiful daughter, boss nor subordinate,...

Easter Sunday. Had it occurred in Depression-Era Mississippi, rather than 1st Century Roman-occupied Jerusalem (and it very well could have), when the women arrived at the tomb they would have beheld a man dressed in a long, white robe, whittlin’ away on a stick, who very likely would have said...

This morning I read Christianity Today’s review of Blue Like Jazz and was baffled by Josh’s Hurst criteria to evaluate the film. After discussing the strengths of the film, Hurst dives into the movie’s shortcomings: “The downside? Separating “Christian spirituality”...

Faith and art… Shouldn’t this suck?   It is probably safe to say that most films that will open nationwide on April 13 did not crowd source their funding. Blue Like Jazz did. The film, based on the NY Times bestselling collection of essays on Christian Spirituality (seriously), lost...

Blue Like Jazz opens this weekend, and we’re excited. We’re excited like these guys, who are giving away free stuff. And it’s just been brought to my attention that we’re doing the same. So…we’re, well, you know. Here’s how to win both a copy of The Way with two free...

Me with Donald Miller after the movie By making a small contribution to last year’s effort to fund the making of “Blue Like Jazz” via Kickstarter, I put myself in line to receive an invitation to the Fort Worth premiere on March 21. This showing was part of a 30-city tour...

Editors Note: For anyone who hasn’t read The Hunger Games book or movie, this review contains spoilers.  I have never read the Hunger Games books so I wasn’t a “super fan” or anything. But I did go to a midnight showing of the movie simply because my 15 year old wanted to go,...

It’s been quiet around here about the upcoming Blue Like Jazz movie. This was not intentional, and rest assured at least this writer has IMDB at the ready for its April 13 release. (This writer is also suppressing obscene amounts of envy forthose of you who have already seen it, but this writer...

Over the past few years I have started to take a hobby of mine, watching films, and turn it into more of passion.  Through understanding more fully what makes a good narrative, I have gained new insights into Jesus’ parables, which in turn has changed the way I’ve tried to share my faith with other...

Quint the fisherman, played to perfection by the scene-stealing Robert Shaw in the 1975 Steven Spielberg masterpiece, Jaws, was a rugged, thick-skinned, and independent man who played by his own rules and offered to hunt, kill, and bring back to shore the shark that was terrorizing a small coastal town...