Last night, I watched ”The Great Mouse Detective” with my children.  Among other things, this Disney movie provides Exhibit A for the idea that the villains get the best songs.  (Exhibit B is “Beauty and the Beast”, in case you were wondering.)

But I digress…

Whew, getting here was a ride, but I think the benefits are well worth it. Expression Engine is a far superior platform to Geeklog. You will notice that I wasn’t able to bring all the forum posts with us. That means that you folks need to get posting to…

I was finally able to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey.  As a long-time SF junkie, I have been painfully overdue in viewing this.  I’ve read the book and its sequels, but I hadn’t gotten around to seeing this.  Until now.

Between my initial speculations and the helpful thoughts from this site, for the first time, 2001 actually began to make sense to me.  As a result, I think that I actually prefer the movie to the book.  While the book gives more detail, I think that the movie is more…

“What is the point of life,” you might ask.
Here’s the answer plain and simple: Glorify God.

“Okay, where did you pull that one from?”

Matter of fact I pulled that one right out of the Bible:

1 Corinthians 6:20

“For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Matthew 5:16

“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“What does God do to deserve all the glory?”

He did everything! He created you and had a plan for you from the…

As photographers, we often compliment others or receive compliments which refer to a photo or shot as being beautiful. But is this correct? Is there “so called” beauty in the colors and composition that make up a image? The Bible is not silent on the topic of beauty and since we have a film short in the critique forum presenting an argument against one of the many beauty lies of our culture, perhaps it’s a fitting subject to talk about.

Consider… 1 Chronicles 16:29b “… come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness”

In this passage God commands his people to worship him in holiness, but modifies this holiness by describing it as…