Cultivating the Christian Imagination

In 2018, Disney released A Wrinkle in Time to theatres everywhere. Now, it’s on Netflix for screens everywhere. This film is based upon a children’s book that I greatly enjoyed. Yep! That book is A Wrinkle in Time. Madeleine L’Engle wrote it in 1962 and it’s now a classic having won the Newbery Medal, perhaps the most coveted award for a children’s book. Though written with children in mind, this is not a childish book. It’s one of the most striking things about the novel. L’Engle has the remarkable gift to write simply about mature and important ideas. A very, very difficult thing to do. C.S. Lewis did it. J.K. Rowling can do it. And I’ll gladly place L’Engle among these writers. >> WHAT IS

A couple years ago, my wife and I stayed in a remote cabin on a lake in Tennessee. We were moving back to California in a couple of weeks and thought it’d be fun to get away. And when I say remote, I mean we drove for almost an hour off of the highway deep into the woods. We loved the silence and -- for a little while -- the inability to see human beings or evidence that they exist. One of the days we decided to watch the movie The Village. This is one of M. Night Shyamalan’s early films, and just as a warning, I do plan to give some spoilers away. Some slate it as a horror movie, but it’s much more like an Alfred Hitchcock film -- unnerves you without blood and gore and sex and language and

Recently, I wrote an article about Chris Pratt's confession of faith and adoration of Jesus, "Chris Pratt & Defining Our Terms." If you're not familiar with Pratt, he's acted in Parks and Recreation, the Guardians of the Galaxies films, and The Jurassic World movies. He's gifted and hilarious! I'm hopeful God is using him in the film industry. This afternoon my mother sent me a link about another actor in Hollywood with faith commitments. I had to look closer. The link lead me to a music video of Dennis Quaid singing a moving and beautiful song, "On My Way to Heaven." In a film behind the song, he explains he had been working on it for a number of years, but couldn't quite finish it until...

Editor's note: I (Dane) see it as a great privilege to serve at LifeHouse Theater in Redlands, CA. Not only is the leadership dedicated to upholding and illustrating the Christian worldview, but they're committed to helping their volunteer storytellers and patrons better understand how to interpret culture in a Christ-honoring way! Wow. That excites me. Enjoy! As President of LifeHouse Theater, I (Wayne) spend a good deal of time thinking about how we, as Christians and members of the LifeHouse community, should think about stories in light of our Christian faith. Even though LifeHouse is committed to producing musicals and dramas that illustrate the Christian worldview, this does not stop u

Editor's Note: This is the third post in a series on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, "Before There Was George Lucas or J.R.R. Tolkien - There was John Bunyan." Read the second post here. In our day there is much discussion around the word “friends,” especially with Facebook and other social media platforms that are everywhere. And we assume we can call many whom we have not even seen for years our friends. But just because we are friends with them on Facebook does that act really make them a friend? This discussion reminds me of two things: one anecdotal and the other biblical. First, when my daughters graduated from high school, their classmates signed one another’s yearbook “friends fore