There are many concepts addressed in C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce that are extremely insightful, if not equally controversial. (Read the flannelgraph review here).
I admit to being only an amateur musician, focusing mostly on writing songs for use in congregational worship, but I find Lewis’ insight into the motivations of the ‘Christian’ artist deeply challenging.
“It was all a [...]

The latest movie to grace my best-movies-of-all-time list is a film that exudes intelligence, high drama, phenomenal acting and a deeply spiritual message…
Nacho Libre.
Some movies have the magical ability to get better with each viewing and Nacho Libre is definitely one of these.  Especially when the whole family watches it multiple times.  Then a well-placed Nacho quote, impression, song, or [...]

The summer of 1983.  BMX mania had swept the world.  Hence, all I had dreamed of all year for Christmas was a BMX. Imagine my excitement (or lack of) when I got a Grifter.
Grifter: Children’s bicycle manufactured and marketed from 1976 and until early 1983 by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England.
Grifter Pros:

The gear shift (which was incorporated [...]

How did I see the New Year in? I was up to 1:30am wrangling my new blog platform (goodbye Blogger, hello Wordpress), oh and watching Bride and Prejudice at the same time… I cannot honestly say which was more painstaking to watch – countless ‘error notifications or Martin Henderson being all romantic-like in a sherwani. Bollywood [...]

Being a child of the 70’s my taste in music was influenced by my older siblings – Disco Europop.
Abba

The 80’s started with a bang, and like most kids my age I whittled away many a Saturday cradling my poor-man’s ‘Ghetto Blaster’ listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.
Too many classics to mention but one band pretty much sums it up:
A-Ha [...]

I heard a great message last night about the real world. The gist of it was – how this ‘real’ world isn’t all that real… more fake than real actually.
Plastic flowers look real from a distance, but plastic flowers will never ever be real, no matter how well crafted they are.
This world is full of plastic pleasures, pleasures which make [...]

Did you know that the word gullible has been taken out of the English dictionary?
Actually no, it hasn’t, but you’d be amazed at the amount of people that have responded “Really?” to that verbal statement over the years. A cheap and nasty joke I admit, but good enough entertainment nonetheless.
You’d be amazed at the amount of emails I receive weekly [...]

I’ve never seen Mary Poppins in its entirety. Parts of it have always given me the creeps.
Perhaps it’s is because of the not so subtle (down right scary) imagery hidden throughout the movie. Don’t be deceived by it’s cute Disney musical facade with the ever so innocent Mary (fresh from singing in the Swiss alps).
Pure evil I say.
You doubt [...]

Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated by rays… PaislyeJade has been terrified by them.
She remembers an obviously doctored photo in an old local surf shop of an areal view of a dingy dwarfed by the shadow of a giant manta swimming beneath it. The imagery that fuels nightmares.
In our early years of marriage we had a [...]

I remember dissecting a rabbit at high school… while my friend fainted. Good memories.
Now a couple of decades later, at approx 8:01pm I stumbled upon a fluffy bunny in desperate need of life-saving surgery… with only a minute to operate.
Talk about pressure.
The story has a happy ending (after three attempts). House would have been proud.
Click here to operate on fluffy [...]