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April Showers Bring Good Thinking
A few weeks ago I found myself with an odd longing: I felt the need to track down any Caedmon’s Call music missing from my collection. While I’ve been a fan since ’97, I’ve never really dug into their smaller … Continue reading
Why I Trust Peter Jackson
Lots of The Hobbit this week, and today brings the release of what might be the final trailer for the movie. It’s great … full of promises and hints and hopes (and a way to deal with the dilemma I … Continue reading
Weaving the Darker Web: Extending The Hobbit
Last night was spent happily perusing the new and extended scenes in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Peter Jackson added 25 minutes wisely to a movie well-told but somewhat slight. Some nice touches of humor have been added. Beorn … Continue reading
A Hobbit Walks into a Coffee Shop
The extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug drops tomorrow. The director’s cut has about 25 minutes added to the feature. I’m hopeful. While DOS flowed better than An Unexpected Journey, it also felt off in its own … Continue reading
On Lewis and the Nature of Reality
We just started a unit on creative non-fiction in my Faith & Literature class. I thought reading some of N. D. Wilson’s short essays would be a nice place to start. We recently watched this short video from Wilson about … Continue reading
U2 on the Couch (A Song for Someone)
U2 recently went on The Graham Norton Show and played from their new album, Songs of Innocence. Here’s their performance of “A Song for Someone.” I’m really liking their album about “firsts.”
Flying Air New Zealand to Middle Earth . . . Safely
Air New Zealand has done it again . . . made a nice safety video for flights to the land of Frodo, Bilbo, and Smaug. Weird to think I’ve been there (and just this year!). I hope to get back … Continue reading
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Singing Rich Mullins
Local cable television played an old concert of Rich Mullins this evening, which was a wonderfully nice surprise. As great as it was seeing him sing “Elijah” and “Sometimes by Step,” it was his rendition of “Sing Your Praise to … Continue reading
On Thinking Christianly
From an interview with Francis Spufford, author of Unapologetic: That music you hear in the distance? It’s St Augustine, St Teresa, Teilhard de Chardin, Pascal, Kierkegaard and Simone Weil all singing together, and what they are singing is that, as … Continue reading
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Back to the Island: How to Start a Second Season
What’s the best way to start up a season after one of the most intense season finale’s imaginable? Introduce a new character starting his day to the music of Cass Elliot. It was so different that it was perfect. I … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 