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As I continue to give last minute considerations to my end of the year top lists in film I always enjoy giving special attention to some underserved genres. This is specifically true when it comes to documentaries as I tend to devote my top films of the year to narrative films. Thus this is anContinue reading “2021 Retrospective: Favorite Documentaries, Animation and Horror”

I always enjoy using this time of year to look back on the year that was and take stock of where I’ve developed and grown. I love locating a narative within that in order to help formulate it into a story I can live occupy and live in to as I look towards the newContinue reading “2021 Retrospective: The Story of a Year In Film”

Previous Entries:#10: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shore#9: Think Again; The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant#8: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand#7 In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family FarContinue reading “My Top 10 Most Important Reads in 2021: #6 Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade The World by Tom Holland”

My 10 Most Important Reads in 2021 Previous Entries: #10: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shore #9: Think Again; The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant #8: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand #7: In PursuitContinue reading “My Top 10 Most Important Reads in 2021: #7 In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away by Dionne Searcey”

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand The synopsis for Menands book suggest that “the Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.” What’s interesting about how the book arrives at thisContinue reading “My Top 10 Most Important Reads in 2021: #8 The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand”

My Most Important Reads of 2021: #9Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant Practical and hard hitting, Think again cuts straight through the noise and tries to infiltrate the never ending conflict of “sides” with a secret weapon called humility. Knowing what we don’t know is a powerful toolContinue reading “My 10 Most Important Reads of 2021: #9 Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant”

It’s that time of year again when I start to look back before looking ahead, reflecting on my favorite and most important watches/reads/listens and engaging with my ongoing new years reflections on the year as a whole (i use a practice called Rosebud). I thought I would start with pulling out what I consider toContinue reading “My Top10 Most Important Reads of 2021: #10 The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone”

This past week I watched the original Matrix in preparation for the release of Resurrection, the fourth film in the series. I was curious to see how it held up as it’s been a while, and also because I didn’t enjoy the sequels, and so the first one had gotten buried beneath my growing disinterestContinue reading “The Matrix: A Story of God With Us in the Incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection”

In a previous post I found myself in a place of pondering and wondering; asking myself not what it is that I believe but why I believe when it comes to God, humanity, creation and life. I reflected on how the older I get the less interesting the what becomes and the more crucial theContinue reading “Encountering the Incarnation: God With Us Then, Here and Now”

A culmination of reading, viewing, listening, online and in person dialogue, and self reflection has had me thinking these past couple weeks about my faith in God. Not so much how it is I know God exists; the older I get the less interesting that question becomes on both sides of the apologetic fence, andContinue reading “Why I Believe: Finding Presence, Hope and Mystery in Advent”