What is Courage, New Hampshire?
Posted on February 13, 2012 by James RileyThe Next Big Thing. Help Build It! Jonathan Wilson, our executive producer, attended a birthday party for one of the cast this week, and there were a few ‘old country men,’ in attendance. (That’s what they use to call ‘Brits’ in 18th century America.) These blokes were all wondering what sort of creature we […]
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“Christian” and “Family” Movie Guides
Posted on February 11, 2012 by James RileyBecause a boo-boo index is easier than an actual review.. Quite a few well-meaning folk have set up ministries, large and small, aimed at reviewing film and television with an eye to how appropriate the content is for Christian and family audiences. In roundly criticizing them, as I am about to do, I am aware […]
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The Molly Pine Show
Posted on February 7, 2012 by James RileyThe “reality” show below is a spoof. Lorraine’s a good sport and let me pretend I was talking to her. Wilson thought it was funny, so we’re making it available to Colony Bay Members, (join here!) but first a word about Lorraine and our cast. I first met Lorraine at Jonathan Wilson’s office in […]
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Stories that Civilize
Posted on January 17, 2012 by James RileyStories are potentially dangerous, at least the wrong ones. A lot of parents lament profanity, sex, and violence in modern entertainment, but those, as I’ve lamented recently, are all found even in the Bible — in a context that explains their place. How do you tell the story of Jesus without cutting off the centurion’s […]
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Between Comedy and Horror
Posted on January 10, 2012 by James RileyCareful out there in the middle.. I remember enough about mathematics and physics to know that you can be solving for both sides of a complicated equation only to find yourself, miserably, winding down to the painfully obvious. You see it a few steps before the eraser reveals it on paper: a=a. I’m not sure if […]
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Merry Christmas
Posted on December 24, 2011 by James RileyThe other night we tooled around Riverside’s Mission Inn for a dose of Christmas lights and Christmas Crowd and Christmas feasting. Fortunately, the new Air Jordan was not on sale anywhere nearby, so we had a relatively safe evening. I say “relatively safe,” because there’s something about shepherding 25-30 people (friends and friends’ […]
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Sex in Courage Township
Posted on December 16, 2011 by James RileyHow We All Came to Be We’ve had a lot of good reaction to my last two blogs on the subject of the vile, cheap buffoon and intellectual pretender, Jon Stewart. He’s not worth any more space, but I wanted to use his absolute lack of taste, and his utter lack of spiritual depth, […]
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I Set Before You Life And Death
Posted on December 15, 2011 by James RileyMy Blood Runs Cold, My Memory Has Just Been Sold… In the summer of 1975, trying to beef up my college-bound credentials, I took a biology class at Arcadia High School, taught by a self-satisfied, sandal-wearing ex-hippy whose name I can’t remember. I may not remember his name because, unlike the rest of my […]
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