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March 2024

March 26, 2024

JOSH LARSEN – Enjoying Movies at a Deeper Level

Seeing Movies as Prayers (and even enjoying Horror Movies! We love to talk movies on...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

RICHARD VANCE GOODWIN – Experiencing God at the Movies

Seeing Is Believing: The Revelation of God Through Film. Scroll down to read the episode...

May 13, 2023

Are “Intellectual Properties” Ruining Movies?

In an excellent article at Paste, Jacob Oller explains how the management of "intellectual properties"...

July 2022

July 13, 2022

Our Creativity is a Key to our Spirituality – with Mako Fujimura

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description How is art an...

June 2022

June 21, 2022

Christ is King over All Aspects of Life – with Jessica and Robert Joustra

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Episode Description The Dutch theologian Abraham...

January 2022

January 28, 2022

Deconstructing Beliefs While Keeping Our Faith – with A.J. Swoboda

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Episode Description: It has become vogue to...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Pixar’s “Soul” Spoiler Review – Jazzing Life and Finding Joy

Warning: SPOILER REVIEW (see NON-SPOILER review HERE) So, having done my non-spoiler review, let’s now...

December 29, 2020

Pixar’s “Soul” Non-Spoiler Review – Disney Wins the Christmas Day Movie Award

NON-SPOILER REVIEW (see SPOILER review TOMORROW). With all the hype from HBO Max and...

September 2020

September 08, 2020

Taking Our Faith to the Movies – with Craig Detweiler (podcast)

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app Or watch it on YouTube How...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

Byron’s 2019 Reintegrate Book Awards

Byron Borger, with his wife Beth, owns Hearts and Minds Bookstore, a Reintegrate partner. It’s...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Work Didn’t Always Suck

In our day, we know that work can often be frustrating. We get together with...

March 2017

March 16, 2017

Are There Two Kinds of Grace?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. As God created everything in...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

Why So Stressed Out?

Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days, When our momma sang...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Embracing the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

(re)integrating faith and art. The true, the good, and the beautiful: through the ages, these ideals have been...

June 2015

June 12, 2015

(re)integrate Summer Reading List

So, you want to enjoy a summer on the beach (or in Bob's case in...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Creation Is a Manifesto

We Christians sometimes try to be holier than God, especially when it comes to creation....

January 2015

January 09, 2015

Beauty is the Disinterested One

“Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Beauty is the last thing which...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

About Time There’s a Movie Like This!

Film Review: “About Time” - Directed by Richard Curtis Time travel. In films today, such...

August 13, 2014

What Radiohead and Porcupine Tree can Teach Us About Theology

I am a big fan of early Radiohead. “The Bends” (1995), while accessible to the...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Playing It Safe Will Never Change the World

The dust swirled in the hot humid air as I trudged home from school. I...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Vocation and Occupation as Sacrament

Over lunch today at Elevation Burger, home to “burgers the way they’re meant to be,”...

April 14, 2014

The Five Biggest Career Mistakes Christians Make

I can’t tell you how disappointing it was when, at age 22, I finally made...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

Visual and Creative Arts as Ministry: A Doorway to Transformation

“The purpose of art and religion are the same,”Kenyon Adams said. I held my breath and...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

To be Human is to be Response-Able

Seems a long time ago now, but I once found a Narnia board game and...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Five Ways Pastors Can Affirm Faith, Work, and Vocation

Art Lindsey, over at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, writes "Today’s evangelical Church...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

From Ideologies to Art: Why Work Matters

Why work? For all that the Marxist-Leninist vision got badly wrong, they got this right: work...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

What “The Office” Taught Us about the Workplace

The finale of “The Office” had me laughing and even close to shedding a tear....

May 08, 2013

Be the Best (Insert Your Name Here) You Can Be

Last week I attended a meeting where a very famous sports broadcaster gave a motivational...

May 03, 2013

Structure and Direction: A Better Paradigm for Cultural Engagement

One of the recurring topics of conversation I have with college students pertains to how...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

Can We Find God in Secular Movies?

The Apostle Paul makes it clear that God reveals himself in a myriad of ways...