The Lent and Easter season is my favorite time of the year to attend church. Not that I don’t enjoy worshiping in church at other times of the year, but I always look forward to Lent church services, as somber as they tend to be. Obviously one reason I love this part of the church [...]

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Larry Norman passed away yesterday at age 60. In his farewell message on his website, he said, “I feel like a prize in a box of cracker jacks with God’s hand reaching down to pick me up…I am ready to fly home.”
“Dubbed by the media as ‘the father of Christian rock,’ Norman recorded three albums [...]

The church pictured to the right here, Community Christian Church (CCC) in Illinois, is actually quite good. I worshiped there for a while about seven years ago, and have some fond memories of the place. It just happens to look like a giant yellow box, which is what they affectionately call it.
Recently, the [...]

Thanks to my brother for this trip down memory lane…
Anybody else remember how spectacular this show was? Watching the intro immediately brought back all sorts of memories—mainly of betamax, which just made my day.
Are there any other shows you remember from your youth that have impacted your faith?

Some in the religious press are pointing out an obvious trend of major motion pictures with a decidedly pro-life bent. I certainly saw that in the ribald Knocked Up (nominated for the dirtiest movie with a good, final message), but hadn’t considered it in other movies, like Children of Men. Of course, the incredible success [...]

Chris Harrison has a series of images that show the connections within the bible. Clicking on the pictures will take you to higher quality images of the pictures. You can find even bigger images on his site.

A beautiful visual guide to verse cross references in the bible. The bars at the bottom [...]

If you follow Barbara Nicolosi’s Church of the Masses blog, you know that she’s lately gotten hooked on the new Battlestar Galactica television show. She recently wrote a great post wrestling with whether or not BSG is a good show—in the moral sense. (Caution—her post contains major spoilers for the show.) I love the way [...]

Joseph Bottum of First Things is apparently quite a Bob Dylan fan—he’s recently been interviewed about the man and his music. Toward the end of the interview, the discussion turns to Dylan’s gospel music and the way he sang about God. From the interview:
I don’t know what Dylan’s religion is. But I know what the [...]

That’s a quote from Phil Vischer, creator of VeggieTales, which opened their second movie this weekend (ranked ninth with $4.4 mil).
He has a very compelling interview in Christianity Today you should check out. Here’s the crux of this thoughts on the Christian message in movies:
Some Christian films have failed flat-out because their plot was their [...]