A Glimpse into Narnia
Can’t get enough of Narnia? Well, the official Narnia Facebook page posted the first images from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader over the holiday break.
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A Glimpse into Narnia
Bring Donald Miller to Your Small Group!
I recently received three DVD s called “Convergence” — not movies or TV programming, but helpful discussion starters featuring Donald Miller ( Blue Like Jazz ) holding conversations with a number of thoughtful Christians (Phyllis Tickle, Lauren Winner, Tremper Longman, Dan Allender). The videos are meant to be used in small-group settings, and I’ve already “beta” tested the first one — “Breaking the Ice: Learning to Share Our Stories” — with our own couples Bible study group. Other than Miller’s interesting interview with Tickle (see image at right) on what makes a good story (and what doesn’t), the DVD does a nice job of encouraging groups to share their own stories with one another — stories that go beyond the superficial and dig deeper beneath the surface.
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Bring Donald Miller to Your Small Group!
TV Preachers: Everything BUT the Gospel?
Our friend Phil Cooke recently tipped us off to this story : Mary Hutchinson of Inspired Direct , a direct mail and fundraising company for non-profits, churches, and ministries, conducted an interesting experiment recently.
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TV Preachers: Everything BUT the Gospel?
Empowering Girls & Women
Radical Womanhood blogger Carolyn McCulley is impressed with the recent book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. So she is compiling a list of documentaries “in order to help us all understand the plight of women in other nations.” Her initial list includes these six films: A Walk to Beautiful, Lumo, Mrs.
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Empowering Girls & Women
"Avatar" on "60 Minutes"
Did you miss 60 Minutes last night? If you did, you missed Morley Safer’s interview with James Cameron and their discussion of his upcoming 3-D film, Avatar
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"Avatar" on "60 Minutes"
Drew Barrymore, Welcome to the Fight Club!
Fans of 1999’s Fight Club have been anxiously awaiting the Blu-Ray version, which released this week. They were in for quite a surprise when they first popped the disc into their player, when up comes a menu that looks nothing like the hard-edged film it’s introducing: It’s a cute/cuddly Drew Barrymore, with LOTS of pink lipstick all over the menu . . .
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Drew Barrymore, Welcome to the Fight Club!
‘Fireproof’ Filmmakers Announce Next Movie
Sunday’s evening service was anything but “regular” at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. An air of expectancy and members of the media were on hand to hear about the next film from Sherwood Pictures, which had already made Facing the Giants and Fireproof . At Sunday’s service, filmmakers Alex and Steven Kendrick announced that the next film will be called Courageous .
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‘Fireproof’ Filmmakers Announce Next Movie
‘Your lies and tactics are odious to me’
David Kirkpatrick, who once partnered with George Barna to form a fledgling film studio called Good News Holdings, had announced to the world in 2006 that his company was going to turn Anne Rice’s first Christian book, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt , into a major motion picture.
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‘Your lies and tactics are odious to me’
Disney Housecleaning Continues
Less than two months after the ouster of Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook, the studio is continuing its shake-up with the departure of Mark Zoradi, president of Disney’s motion pictures group. Zoradi had been with the company for 29 years. The Los Angeles Times notes that “under the direction of Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger, the Burbank studio is being remade by Cook’s successor, Rich Ross, former president of Disney Channels Worldwide.” I don’t want to read anything into this, but it’s worth noting that Cook and Zoradi are both devout Christians
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Disney Housecleaning Continues
‘Hollywood picking on us Christians’
A week from today, Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic 2012 hits the big screen, and the trailer clearly shows such iconic Christian sites as the Sistine Chapel, Saint Peter’s Basilica, and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro (in the poster at left) all come a-tumblin’ down when all heck breaks loose on doomsday. What you don’t see getting smashed to smithereens are any Islamic holy places — and that has at least a couple of bloggers mad.
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