Cultivating the Christian Imagination

I stumbled across a selfie of myself the other day. (No, not the picture above). I was not expecting it nor looking for it, but there it was. I wish I could say it showed me vacationing in an exotic location or doing something heroic. No software was used to improve the lighting or hide the blemishes – it was a candid shot and I looked dreadful. You see, I found this picture in the most unlikely of places, specifically I saw myself in the writing of Christopher Marlowe. C

Editor's Note: This is the second post in a series of posts titled, "The Image of God in the Drama of God." If you haven't read the first post, read it now: "Dying to Tell Your Story: Anyone Willing to Listen?" I left off last discussion with the need we have to tell our stories, and, more importantly, with the encouragement to let others tell their stories. I joined a friend on his podcast last week to talk about storytelling. He asked me a great question: How do we get bet

The Matrix (1999) has been interpreted many ways by many Christians. Some claim it for use in promoting Christianity while others argue that it undermines Christianity. This post won't weigh in on that debate (for now). This post will only examine one scene from it. Neo (Keanu Reeves) eats breakfast with his shipmates aboard Morpheus' (Laurence Fishburne) ship, The Nebuchadnezzar. Neo is acclimating to the "real world" and gets an anthropology lesson from Mouse (Matt Doran

I’ve been handwriting in a journal for as long as I can remember, at least twenty years.

As a dad, I like to read with my children. We have read the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson, and we are in the midst of The Harry Potter series (preparing to start Order of the Phoenix), just to name a few. It is a time for us to connect, to laugh, to discuss history and people and life. And so, when I recently watched The Princess Bride again, it struck me differently this time. If you have not seen the movie, it begins