Posts Tagged ‘Blue Like Jazz’

Blue Like Don: A Fangirl’s Response to Blue Like Jazz

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,...

May 7th, 2012 | Arts, Essays, Film | Read More

On Being Penny

(Note: Penny Carothers is the Social Justice Editor here at Burnside Writers Collective.) “Wow – you make me look like hot shit!” This is the text message I sent to Don Miller, in 2007, after I read through the screenplay of the film adaptation of "Penny" and "Don" on the...

April 13th, 2012 | Burnside Sells Out, Essays, Featured | Read More

Why I’m Taking Teenagers To See Blue Like Jazz

As the Blue Like Jazz team has screened the film for audiences across the country and across the spectrum of faith, one of the things that keeps coming up is the “appropriateness” of the film for high school age teens. The film’s PG-13 rating and depiction of collegiate parties and...

April 12th, 2012 | Family | Read More

Blue Like Jazz Contest

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...

April 12th, 2012 | Film | Read More

An Semi-Insider’s Guide to the “Blue Like Jazz” Film

The last explicitly Christian film I saw was 12 years ago. (I do not count The Passion of the Christ.) I was working in a small medical supply sales office, along with a few other Christians. One Friday, they invited me to The Omega Code‘s opening. We have to show Hollywood we support Christian...

June 9th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Film | Read More

Why Blue Like Jazz, The Movie, Is Worth Saving

I can point to several authors who influenced my Christian faith: CS Lewis, NT Wright, Henri Nouwen and Walter Wangerin Jr., to name a few. There are fewer authors that influenced me as a writer. But I can only think of two authors who influenced me as a writer of faith: Anne Lamott and Donald Miller;...

October 5th, 2010 | Featured, Film | Read More

The Campaign to Save BLJ the Movie

I’m sure you’re all aware of the fate of the movie version of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. Two guys who loved the book, Jonathan Frazier and Zach Prichard, didn’t want Don’s post to be the end of the story. Below is the interview I did with Jonathan and Zach about their...

October 4th, 2010 | Blog, Featured | Read More

Thinking Out Loud About "The Shack"

I’ve never read The Shack, the self-published novel by William Paul Young that has now sold 2.7 million copies and topped the NYT Bestseller List since June. I’ve avoided reading “The Shack” the way I avoided “Blue Like Jazz” for years, the way I’m still avoiding...

August 3rd, 2008 | Blog | Read More