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Twenty Years Leaving Like Elijah
IT’S NOT OFTEN that I sit around and browse YouTube. It’s usually like shopping for me: know what you want when you set out. When it does happen that I peruse for a long time, it’s mostly looking at music, … Continue reading
Travel and Rich Mullins’ America
THERE WAS A MOMENT, a few months ago driving somewhere between Portland, Oregon and the coast at Haystack, when Rich Mullins was playing and the fields were green and the sky was a battle of blue and white and I … Continue reading
Closing the Loop with Looper (no real spoilers, I think)
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, I kept waiting for Looper to crash under its own weight, to short-circuit because of its story-telling overload. That crash, that short-circuiting, never happened. Looper is as taut and quality a movie as you can hope … Continue reading
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Trailers that Give Me Chills: Cloud Atlas
I’M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT MOVIES these days, and it’s not just the promise of The Hobbit at Christmas-time. I saw the trailer for Life of Pi at the theater again this Tuesday, and it still gives me chills (and I … Continue reading
An Attempted Athletic Analogy
IF LIFE IS A RACE, and if we’re going to do well with it in the long run, it would be good to keep two things in mind: track and traction. We’d like to think that life is a cross-country … Continue reading
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Be Still. . . and Listen to a Great New Song from The Killers
I’VE BEEN A FAN OF THE KILLERS since the first time I heard “Mr. Brightside” back when I taught middle school. Watching them evolve as a band has been interesting, how they have moved to a full sound, one that … Continue reading
Finding (More Than) Nemo
“JUST KEEP SWIMMING” is the line most remembered and quoted from Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo. When I saw the movie again in 3-D this past weekend, I knew that would be the moment that all of the kids and many of … Continue reading
Gandalf, Donald Miller, and Fear
THERE’S A MOMENT in the newest trailer for The Hobbit where Galadriel asks Gandalf, “Why the halfling?” Of the many he could call to action, why a hobbit who has never left home should go on such a dangerous adventure? … Continue reading
The New Trailer for The Hobbit
DON’T HEAD OUT YOUR FRONT DOOR without catching the new trailer for The Hobbit. The folks over at The Beat posted it this morning. Here it is below. I think the tone is spot on: tense but not as dark … Continue reading
Resting Easy with Andrew Peterson
THESE ARE GOOD TIMES, MUSICALLY. New music from the Avett Brothers, The Killers, Mumford & Sons, and Ben Gibbard are dropping almost every week. The goodness started a few weeks ago with the newest release from Andrew Peterson. His new … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Peterson, Light for the Lost Boy, Rest Easy
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Space Enough, and Time 