I don’t know many published authors. To be more accurate, I only know one. When I graduated from Florida State University and moved back down to the Orlando area, I met one of my best friends—and mentors, as all good friends are—Catholic author Bert Ghezzi. Bert has been involved in one form or another with …
Over the past couple of weeks, the big news in the circles I roam in has been the Anglican-Catholic reunification. I’ll explain why this is so profound, but first here’s a video that does a solid job describing the situation: To explain this important situation in every more down-to-earth language, below I’ve copied and pasted …
Some people see the world as boring, as nothing more than drab monotony. Others—including writers like C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Annie Dillard, and Frederick Buechner—see whim all around them; the enchantment constantly penetrating our world. These latter types take seriously Jesus’ admonition to ‘be like children’. Their child-likeness, their openness to amazement at what the …
Rob Bell is one of the best communicators of Jesus today. As a thirty-nine year old hipster, whom many see as the face of the emerging-church-movement–though he himself rejects the association–his teachings can be described with one simple word. Cool. In recent years, many pastors and churches have tried to become “cool”, “relevant”, or “new” …
The overhead lights dim, and the talking quiets until only the crunching of popcorn and the rustlings of candy bags are heard. The projector revs up and displays the beginning of a tale on the oversized screen. Slowly, the entire audience is drawn into another world; another time and place, another story. For many this …
