I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens. " In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.
Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.
If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.