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...

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;...

I was disappointed, and disappointed for Don Miller, that the movie adaptation of Blue Like Jazz won’t be making it to the big screen anytime soon. Don and his team wrote a coming-of-age story where the protagonist had to reconcile the Christianity of his childhood with the excesses of Evangelicalism that...

“The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume One” – 1991 “The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume Two” – 1992 “A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band” – 1993 In the summer of 2001, I drove between Nebraska and the west coast three times. I listened...

Quite a while ago (like, 3 months), an interview ran on Christianity Today regarding a movie based on Blue Like Jazz. It’s a great interview, and it fills readers in on a lot. I had an opportunity to sit in on some of the writing sessions for the Blue Like Jazz screenplay. Those sessions brought...