“A true artist will follow their vision, no matter what!”— Emmylou Harris On paper, some songs should never work. Some singers should never succeed. Some writers should think about putting down their pens. And some actors should continue bartending or just pull the covers back over their head and stay in bed. And yet there are those wonderful God-ordained moments…
Greetings boys and girls! It’s that time of year when things get a little spooky and Doorway is getting in on the fun by featuring a special audio drama of Christopher J. Week’s short story, Nebuchadnezzar’s Curse. So grab a bowl of popcorn, kick back, and prepare for an hour of thrills and chills under the light of a full…
“Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture.” - Alister McGrath on C. S. Lewis For a very long period of time, I would read only nonfiction books. A good 20 years to be exact. I held tight to a secret conviction that fiction had little to offer the reader…
“My heart is stirred by a noble themeas I recite my verse for the king;my tongue is a pen of the skillful writer.” (Psalm 45:1) “Human beings are communal and seek to communicate persuasively with one another. Rhetoric is about persuasion…and that old Roman teacher Quintilian defines the rhetor as, “The good man speaking well.” (Jerry Root) I am the son…
Sin sneaks. This means that sin’s greatest power is found in its inherent ability to get you to think that it has no power. The average person tends to view sin as nothing more than a minor temptation or a nagging itch, nothing really to concern yourself about because the warnings of its deadly effects are hollow, nothing to fear.…
Philosophy defined is the study of human existence and knowing; philosophy applied is nothing more than a bad accident waiting to happen. Reading philosophy as a hobby can be quite fascinating. Not only does the study of the mind offer an endless labyrinth of complex thought, but working through mental puzzles of logic can be quite exhilarating. It is also…
“Say Jim, that’s a bad outfit!” The audience in the crowded theater went wild. I will never forget it, the first time I saw Superman: The Movie it captured my young imagination like nothing else. I was a twelve-year-old boy when my dad took me to an urban movie theater near Downtown Cleveland to watch Christopher Reeves soar across the…
I am a glutton for punishment. I just can’t help it. When it comes to debates on social media, like Facebook and Twitter, I sometimes jump in the middle of a verbal fray throwing caution to the wind. My worldview leans conservative, this is true both politically and morally, which in this day and age, invites a lot of hungry…