Mark Burnett is a household name. He is a four-time Emmy Award Winner, four-time People’s Choice Award Winner, Executive Producer and creator of hit television shows including Survivor, The Voice, Shark Tank, The Apprentice, (and many others), and more recently the acclaimed 10-hour docudrama, The Bible. He has produced over 1200 hours of television, with shows currently running on all …

August 6, 2013 Today is my birthday—one of those proverbial milestone kinds. Today I turn “The Big 4-OH.” And, even though my twenty-year-old self would have freaked out about this, my thirty-nine-year-old self was surprisingly okay. I awoke this morning with the strangest thought swimming about in my head. I laughed it off at first, but as the day progressed, …

There’s a fantastic scene in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower where Charlie (the main character) stays after class to ask for advice from his favorite teacher, Mr. Anderson. It concerns a certain girl, named Sam, with whom Charlie has fallen in love.   Charlie: “Mr. Anderson, can I ask you something?” Mr. Anderson: “Yeah.” Charlie: “Why do …

You’ve probably heard it said, “You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.” That’s true, and for some people that’s a good thing—not everyone is blessed with the love and support of a close-knit family. So they create for themselves a surrogate. Yet sometimes the “friends” we choose really aren’t friends at all. Sometimes, we choose bad …

So…I don’t often step up onto my dusty soapbox, and I certainly don’t want to seem holier-than-thou in saying this and run the risk of being misunderstood, but I’m gonna do it anyway. [begin soapbox] As an artistic, right-brained person, I truly appreciate and enjoy employing creativity and fun and humor to engage others and to further God’s message of …