Movies and Television

Beav’s Favorite 2010 Movies

December 21, 2010

Special thanks to TJ Poon for contributing a couple guest posts this week! Check out “The 5% Life” post links in the left sidebar. They gave me some things to really reflect on and I’ll continue to do so, but I’m directing this blog to a very different place now As is tradition, I’m rolling [...]

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The Infinite Queso Xmas Haiku Contest

December 4, 2010

Stephanie, who is the author of the blog “Infinite Queso” and who has guest blogged here before, is hosting her second annual Christmas Haiku contest. Head to the link below for the rules and for other submissions, but the theme is related to Christmas movies. I submitted my own so I’ll post it here to [...]

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Thoughts on Kind of a Funny Story

November 2, 2010

My wife and have taken a couple days to get away before our baby comes and eliminates the chance to get away just the two of us for awhile. Not much compares with getting some time away with my wife – mostly to rest and talk about things we don’t get a chance to connect [...]

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Some Thoughts on the Percy Jackson Book Series

June 24, 2010

I’ve confessed elsewhere here that I benefit greatly from reading fun books because 90% of what I read is academic or heady stuff or is pretty reflective in nature. Here’s another expression of how I’ve balanced out some of that of late.I just finished five books in a series titled Percy Jackson & The Olympians. [...]

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As Much for Dads as For Kids

June 21, 2010

Last week we enjoyed a couple days away with Christine’s parents and they treated us to a viewing of Shrek 4: The Final Chapter. We did Shrek BIG – in both IMAX and the 3-D. It was hysterical watching the kids navigate the 3-D side of things and Colin’s glasses were bigger than his face.Coming [...]

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Are You Leading From the Green Zone?

March 29, 2010

I’m on vacation right now with my wife sans kids for a couple days and one of the things we got to do today was hit a movie which is a rarity in our life stage. We were on a time table and decided to watch The Green Zone. I didn’t know anything about his [...]

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My Top 10 Reasons I Liked the Harry Potter Books

November 17, 2009

Here’s my short list of why I liked reading the Harry Potter series and why you might want to consider reading it if you haven’t read them. I’ve read all of the them in the past few months and was surprised. I thought it was going to be like 4th grade reading level and while [...]

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My Top “Systems” Movies

September 6, 2009

If you read my blog with any frequency you know that a main theme of my reflections is where congregational/family systems theory and spiritual leadership intersect. Since I began pursuing this realm of study and inquiry about five years ago, there have been several movies that embody many of the key concepts of systems theory. [...]

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I’m Batman

January 26, 2008

It’s not Halloween. I wasn’t at a movie premiere. And last I checked I wasn’t living in Gotham City. Those are the only three possible justifiable reasons I can think of for a grown man to be cruising around in a full batman costume. This wasn’t just one of those cheap Halloween versions either. This [...]

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