Posts Tagged ‘Steve Taylor’

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

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

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

We Wrote a Book.

So, remember when Dan Gibson and I did this? It was a couple summers ago. Dan and I drove from Phoenix/Tucson to Denver for the 2009 International Christian Retail Show. We went for a number of reasons, but I think we mostly went because we’d have fun doing it. Thanks primarily to the Falling...

October 13th, 2010 | Books, Burnside Sells Out, Featured | Read More

How a Movie I’ll Never See Impacted My Life

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...

September 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Film | Read More

Listening Party: Rich Mullins

“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...

September 19th, 2009 | Featured, Music | Read More

Great Christian Music: Steve Taylor

I was about fourteen when I noticed putrid smells coming from certain rooms in The Church: racism, hypocrisy, profiteering evangelists, prosperity gospels, and other such piles of bullshit that I had to step over on my journey of faith. When I brought these subjects up to my Sunday School teachers and...

October 13th, 2008 | Great Christian Music | Read More

Great Christian Music: “Entertaining Angels”

Plenty of folks, including Burnside on occasion, rail against the machinery of Christian music. There’s good reason to do so, since the Christian music industry at large has hardly been a catalyst for innovation and creativity. But most of Burnside’s writers have also been deeply impacted...

October 11th, 2008 | Great Christian Music | Read More