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Monthly Archives: April 2018
A Filmmaker’s Journal
Keep it Real. Even When it’s Fake Two years ago, on the verge of directing my first feature film, I wrote things that would seem irrelevant to my second feature (now entering pre-production). After all, the film we were shooting … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Movies, Popular Culture & Entertainment, Writing
Tagged Airplane, comedy, filmmaking, funny, real, Shaun of the Dead
22 Comments
True Freedom
“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” ~John 8:31-32
Posted in Culture
16 Comments
Fitting In
I’m a big fan of street art. Some pieces make a statement by cleverly, stubbornly, or ironically adapting themselves to the space they’re allotted. Which is the way most of us live our lives, come to think of it.
Sleep
My wife and I kept watch over our little house last night: she from midnight to three, I from three to six. Thanks to us, all evil marauders steered clear. As did sleep. A Dozen Thoughts on Sleep “How do … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Quips and Quotes
Tagged C. JoyBell C., Gillian Flynn, insomnia, Mindy Kaling, peace, Psalm 4:8, sleep
33 Comments
Only Love
“If I have prophetic powers, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and have the faith to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.” ~1 Corinthians 13:2 Only love can make us whole. Only love can … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 1 Corinthians 13:2, child, dogs, healing, hope, love, wholeness
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The Wishing Map 113
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Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Twenty-Two: Everything (Continued) Previously: As they journeyed east, Zack and Gina were haunted by increasingly violent nightmares. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ Gina had slept less than…
Posted in Books, Quips and Quotes, Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged danger, fantasy, humility, nightmares, prophecy, visions
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A Filmmaker’s Journal
Official Trailer for The Tribunal I’ve talked a lot about my feature film Over-the-Rhine, and about Notzilla, my in-the-works monster movie spoof But up until now I’ve said little about my executive producer Mike Mergler or St. Michael Movies, the production … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Movies, Videos
Tagged Catholic, drama, faith-based, feature film, romantic, The Tribunal, trailer
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Mowing the Straight and Narrow
It’s spring. Gentlemen and gentlewomen, start you mowers! When we finally bought a house with an actual yard, I was excited about mowing. Yeah, I got over it. Still, if ya got grass, ya gotta mow, and that means: Ya … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged discipleship, funny, grass, Isaiah 40:8, spring
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Happy Earth Day!
Here’s a thought: This year for Earth Day, instead of giving our planet a Present Let’s give it a Future
Posted in Culture, Quips and Quotes
Tagged conservation, Earth Day, environment, future, happy, hope, planet, present
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If I Could Just Fix Everyone…
“To be good is noble, but to teach others to be good is nobler, and less trouble.” ~Mark Twain “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Humor, Quips and Quotes
Tagged humility, improvement, Mark Twain, Proverbs 11:2, Ralph Waldo Emerson, self, wisdom
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