Category Archives: Book Review

The Five C’s of Cinematography by Joseph V. Mascelli – Christian Video Magazine – November 2009

In the technological Xanadu we video producers know as the present day it is easy for outsiders, and some insiders, to forget the person telling the story and somehow think that the camera being used impacts the quality of the story being told. Recently, someone who had seen the short film content produced by Christ [...]
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Outliers

Happy New Year! First things first, make sure one of your New Year’s resolutions is to read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. The book is a quick read concerning “the story of success.” But instead of the typical pull yourself up by your boot straps philosophy, Gladwell asks you to consider where you came from, when you [...]
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. – Genesis 2:15 My wife has always taken this passage seriously. She goes through my office trashcan to recycle the paper. She insists on taking her own bags to the grocery store. During [...]
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Art & Fear

Art & Fear, by David Bayles & Ted Orland, is a quick and helpful read for all practicing artists and any one with a burning desire to create art who has taken the plunge. The book talks about “Observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking”.  What I particularly like about the book is the [...]
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Surprised by Hope

Every once in a while I will begin to read a book that makes me go, “Aha!”. A friend suggested I read Surprised by Hope by NT Wright. Aha! Like Dallas Willard’s Divine Conspiracy, Surprised by Hope’s back cover does not strike one as especially brilliant or fresh, though you quickly realize what you’re reading [...]
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The Shack

An email from a friend of mine described William P. Young’s The Shack this way, “It’s an amazing story about a man’s weekend with God. Sounds hokey, perhaps, but it will change the temperature of your relationship with God”. Little did I know the book was beginning to sweep the Christian community, I heard about [...]
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