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Pretty People Make It

I picked up this week’s issue of Maclean’s magazine and was drawn in by an article on boy children called How to Fix Boys. There was one quote in there while interviewing Leonard Sax that…

The Parable of the Two Sons

This story that Jesus tells I think is one of his more brilliant ones. At least it is one of my favourites. Two sons are told to go work by their father. One says he’s…

The Great Divide

One of the hardest things to do as Christians is to finally see “non-Christians” as equal human beings especially if, like me, you grew up in the egotistical spirituality that I did. It was our…

Links for January 10, 2007

I have been out of the blogging world lately, haven’t been reading much nor writing much. Life is happening and keeping me busy. I’m putting together a feature length film with some friends called Ugly…

Casting Call In the Paper

Producers casting for movie actors By CATHY DOBSON A group of budding young producers are holding a casting call this Friday and Saturday in preparation for its first feature-length film. Men and women aged 18…

Casting Call

A few friends and a few people I barely know are in the process of putting together a feature length film here in Sarnia called Ugly Lights. We aren’t giving out any details right now,…

Links for Christmas and the Year End for 2007

Brian Walsh laments on Christmas ———————– Dave Hoyt-Walterhouse laments on Boxing Day ———————– Jonny Baker with a Christmas quote from Maggi Dawn ———————– Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007 ———————– As promised, here…

Wondering If I Still Believe

God rest ye merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan’s power when we were gone astray Oh tidings of comfort and…

Amazing

You have to love that there is a book called this. How to Talk about Money Every Sunday: Without Talking About Money Here is the caption. Here’s an innovative way to instill in your congregation…

Links for December 19, 2007

My friend was listening to CBC Radio and they were talking about Christmas. The one guy said that it’s easier to spend money than time, which is why he thinks we’ve seen such a rise…

Do Something Christmas

Every Christmas season I find myself getting angrier than I normally do. For some reason, come December I have stronger opinions and want to share them a little louder and more forceful. There are lots…

Links for Dec 12, 2007

I was interviewed at Rob Bell’s God’s Aren’t Angry tour in Grand Rapids, you can read the article here. He only took one line from what I said along with my friend John, but at…

Sign Is Up

Today our sign got put up. Thanks to Geoplast Signs in Sarnia for the amazing work. No more awkward stares through the front window wondering what in the world we are doing.

R.I.P.

Two of my friends and respected bloggers have decided that blogging isn’t for them, or they are tired of it or whatever other reason they came out with. I write this because I think they…

The New Space

Nov 1 we signed the papers and got a new space for theStory. We got it right downtown where we wanted to be. It’s been completely renovated from floors to ceilings to fire code and…

FINALLY

Finally, after holes and a lot of drilling we have the internet at our new space. Starting today, this is my second home and full time work space; being lenient on the meaning of full…

Links for November 26, 2007

I am doing a small test and have switched away from Firefox and moved to Flock. Mind you it is based on Firefox but apparently it has fixed a lot of the memory leaks. This…

The Quandaries of the West

We here in the West have it real hard. No wonder so many of us are unhappy, miserable, depressed and angry all the time. I’ve noticed this all the more in the last few months…