Different Drummer

Monday Morning, October 26, 2008
This week, I heard about a Nobel Prize winning author named Günter Grass who wrote a novel called The Tin Drum in 1959.  It’s autobiographical and filled with allegory and metaphor.  It’s the story of a young boy named Oskar Matzerat who grows up in Germany through the nineteen twenties and [...]

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Traveling Light

Monday, October 13, 2008

One commentator put it this way: “If you aren’t anxious and frightened, you aren’t paying attention.”  Another called it the financial equivalent of the collapse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.  For many of us, it’s simply headline news and numbers on a page.  So far, abstract.  But not [...]

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Fireproof Seekers

Monday, October 06, 2008
Churches are in the movie-making business these days.  It’s not all that surprising, really.  The technology required to make stunning images is available to just about everyone. 
Church folks have long felt that their values and message rarely if ever make it to the big silver screen through established channels.  Seated in those [...]

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