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I’ve been setting aside some time over the last few weeks to look back on the year that was in film. Every time I do this I am struck by how how many of my favorite films tend to share in a common theme, and how timely those themes tend to be in my life. IContinue reading “My Year In Film: A Thematic and Personal Look at The Idea of of “Gaining Perspective””

It’s 2019. Which means it’s time to look back at the year that was and the films that were with top lists, notes and stats and more. Here are the stats that I weighed my lists against: Total number of films that I saw which were released in 2018: 130 Total number of films IContinue reading “My Year in Film Part 1: My Top Films of 2018 And More…”

Many of you know I am a bit of a cinephile. Yep, it’s true. I love film. What you might not know is that my first love happens to be reading. But over the years I have grown to love the visual arts more and more. Whereas literary form is an art form that worksContinue reading “My Life in Film- Preparing to Look Back at 2018”

I confess that life has turned me into something of a cynic. I haven’t always been this cynical. In fact, it is only recently that I even came to recognize myself as a cynic. Truth be told it is an odd label for me to accept because it is not at all what people used toContinue reading “From One Cynic to Another: Green Book, Matters of Perspective and Christmas Miracles”

We wrote another annual adoption update. Late in coming but you can use this link to find it on our official adoption blog. https://adoptingukraine.blogspot.com/2018/12/another-yearly-adoption-update-looking.html

INTRODUCTION Back in July, Jen and I had been given the opportunity to drive a group of students down to Knoxville for the Covenant denomination wide (North America) youth conference. Thousands of students from across North America all coming together for a single purpose. And when you ask me to drive a group of studentsContinue reading “Paul, Transformation and Anticipating The Hope of the Advent Season”

Far more than monsters and ghosts or the joy of a well told horror story (which I admit, I am quite fond of), it is the “why” questions that seem far more threatening and scary to me. There is something about the uncertainty and fear of the unknown that tends to show itself in placesContinue reading “First Man, The Moon and Navigating The Human Story”

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What does it mean to be progressive. To say that we live in a “progressive” society. To champion progressive policy. To share a “progressive” view of this or that issue. To be labelled a progressive in the world of politics, religion, philosophy or social reform. I started…

A few years back I wrote in this space about a class I took on what it looks like to navigate “the second half of life”. It was a class designed for those over 40, and in part it is what inspired this blog. One of the big learnings I took away from this class was that loss,Continue reading “A Ghost Story, First Reformed and Hearts Beat Loud- A Cinematic Journey Towards Finding Hope in the midst of Grief”

What does it mean to be progressive. To say that we live in a “progressive” society. To champion progressive policy. To share a “progressive” view of this or that issue. To be labelled a progressive in the world of politics, religion, philosophy or social reform. I started to think about this word “progressive” a numberContinue reading “The Tangled Tree, the Selfish Gene and the problem of Progressive Thought”