Posts Tagged ‘Donald Miller’

Christianity Today’s Odd Straight Jacket for Christian Art

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”...

April 24th, 2012 | Arts, 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

Film Review: Blue Like Jazz

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...

April 10th, 2012 | Arts, Blog, Essays, Featured, Film | Read More

Living A Better Love Reality – Part II (For The Girls)

Now that I’m done addressing the men, it’s time for me to talk to the women-folk.* As you probably know, these two latest articles are my answer to the question posed by author Don Miller in his blogs “How To Live A Great Love Story” (since deleted). To me, a story is something you make up,...

August 19th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

The Kids in America

Rob Bell. Mark Driscoll. Don Miller. Rachel Held Evans. These are just a few of the names of those who’ve been the direct targets of what author Karen Spears Zacharias described as ‘internet gang rape’. (Editor’s Note: It should mentioned Karen was also victim of this phenomenon.) In the...

August 18th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Living A Better Love Reality – Part I: For The Guys

Right off the bat, let me say this will not be a list of things you as a man can do for, to, or with, the woman in your life in order to have a better relationship with her. It will not be habits, gestures or practices you can exercise which will please your wife or girlfriend. This is because it will...

August 15th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Living A Better Love Reality – An Introduction

Recently Donald Miller, a person I admire and respect immensely, wrote a two-part blog speaking to young men and women, presumably of an age where they have been dating a while and are considering marriage, about how they can live a better, more authentic love story. Miller, in his writing, speaks to...

August 12th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | 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

Resurrecting a Dream

On September 26-27, 2010, popular author and speaker Donald Miller took to the stage of the Amory Theater to host his first Storyline conference in his hometown of Portland, OR. Storyline was Miller’s vehicle to explain how individuals can create meaningful lives for themselves by applying principles...

April 21st, 2011 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

Interview with Dan Gibson, John Pattison and Jordan Green

We warned you we’d be pimping this book thing pretty hard. If you didn’t get the memo, the three of us wrote a book called Besides the Bible – 100 Books That Have, Should, or Will Change Christian Culture. It’s being heralded the greatest book about books ever written, or...

December 2nd, 2010 | Books, Burnside Sells Out, Featured | Read More