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Recently I was asked to deliver a devotional to the board of IMAGE Journal, a glorious periodical that grapples with the (more…)

Among my most memorable Dick Staub interviews were those with Charlton Heston. We first met in Washington DC when he spoke at a lunch I attended. I needed to catch a flight and waited until he finished. I headed for a back exit, the same one he ducked into. As we reached the actual exit door alarms went off and a security guard approached. Recognizing Heston the guard waved him through…I quipped, “I’m with Moses.” Heston turned, laughed and waved me through with him. We introduced ourselves and a few months later we met in Chicago for an interview, then another and another. He was literate, articulate and a gentleman who loved words as evidenced by his comments in this reprise interview.

On this podcast host Dick Staub hosts a discussion with Nigel Goodwin on “The C.S. Lewis quotes that have shaped me and my thinking.” Nigel Goodwin is a British actor and founder of Genesis Arts an organization that encourages the artistic community in its quest to make good art to God’s glory.

It’s been twenty-five years since I left behind my Eastern, mystical world-view ” hatched in the 1960’s and practiced for fifteen years into the early 80’s. This sojourn included a time in India and twelve years of being a disciple of the Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba, as well as many other aspects of religious and philosophical searching. My former perspective on life and the world was formed in the 60’s atmosphere ” which included a strong sense of things ending: the world on the eve of destruction; the heroes falling (or being felled); the sense that

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Even the dimmest bulb on the planet can see that if “art is the language of the soul,” our Academy Award Best Picture Nominees reveal the misty twilight of human hope brought on by a dark shadows cast across the human soul.

All five nominees portray human capacity for evil and fallenness and each in its own way explores

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In one of the most interesting election years in ages, we ask some simple questions. DOES God have a politics? What does faith have to do with political positions? With all the hoopla about record turn outs in primaries and caucuses, the fact is there is overwhelming evidence that the majority of

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(This column first appeared as an RNS syndicated column in September 2007). I have moved to a small island, in part to pursue the un-frantic life. For twenty years we’ve vacationed in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. Each year for a few weeks

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On the afternoon of March 29, 2002 the world was shaken when an 18 year-old Palestinian girl and suicide bomber, entered a market where she detonated a bomb, killing herself, injuring 30 and killing a 17 year-old Israeli girl. No one was shaken more than the mothers of

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Every year some films are the “buzz” of Sundance. This time the buzz converted to one of Sundance’s major awards. Enjoy Craig Detweiler’s exclusive discussion with the producer (Heather Rae), writer/director (Courtney Hunt) and two actors (Melissa Leo and Misty Upham) from “Frozen River,” which has not only been talked about by the film-goers, but was picked up for distribution by SONY Pictures. Frozen River’s feature-length script is set in a real-life

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In his classic God in Popular Culture, sociologists Andrew Greeley concluded, “my thesis is simple enough: Popular Culture is a theological place”the locale in which one may encounter God. Popular culture provides an opportunity to experience

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Windrider Forum hosts young filmmakers and theologians in an exploration the films of Sundance. Today a discussion about the importance of Sundance in these endeavors. We feature

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