Christian Fiction

I just came across this quote on Kingdom People, one of the Christian blogs I read. It’s a great quote from a critique about The Shack and I think it’s a lesson that really well-read good writers need to learn. Perhaps the world doesn’t need your next big commentary, or yet another systematic theology. I [...]

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thoughts on the “Power of Myth”

i hate cable TV.
it’s some sort of racket, with monopolies and the worst customer service available…
i LOVE Hulu.  i hear that they may be adding another ‘free’ internet TV network to the mix, which would make it even more silly to be paying for TV…
Netflix is my other best friend now.  it will help [...]

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Why vampires need stakes

or, why the vampires of “Twilight” just don’t have the mythological weight to be interesting.
to be clear, i am a Joss Whedon fan. this means that i am deeply invested in the story of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, the vampire with a soul. I am also very familiar with the works of Anne [...]

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around the well – iron & wine

listening to this collection of b-sides and previously unreleased tracks (not to be confused with a ‘new album’) is like sitting on the front porch after dinner, late in the summer with the sun still hanging around, with a few guys who just happen to have rootsy, acoustic instruments in their laps.
the two-disc set was [...]

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criteria for review

it might be helpful to lay out the criteria i use when listening to music so that readers here will understand where i’m coming from.
rating scales are so ridiculously arbitrary… it’s been interesting over the years to watch the music/book/movie reviews in RelevantMagazine change from 1-7, to 1-5, to + or -, to no subjective [...]

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