It's not that I want to fight fire with fire, and drum up millions of dollars to produce a "Passion of the Christ II". I simply feel that art touches a place in the soul that no other experience can. If our spiritual lives exist apart from that place, then our relationships with God and man are seriously lacking. Therefore, I almost agree with Mark Judge: artists need to be drawn to the Church so they can share their gifts with art-starved Christians.
Here is what I suggest:
Read MoreWriting an epic fantasy is super fun. There are magical forces to conjure up, heroic characters to mold, cities and landscapes to create ... and, eventually (womp, womp), a battle to write.
Some fantasy writers, to be sure, love to write battles. For them, the whole story has been building up to this height of conflict, when bad guy meets good guy and the fate of Middle Earth is on the brink. But, I gotta tell ya, I loathe writing battles.
Read MoreThe title of my master’s thesis was, “Faith and the Imagination: Father William F. Lynch and the Need for Charity”, or something to that effect. I hope it remains deep, deep in the uncharted chasms of the basement library of the Dominican House of Studies for at least the rest of my life, because it was seventy-odd pages of garbledeegook.
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