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Reformed Christmas: A Charlie Brown Christmas
That’s exactly what A Charlie Brown Christmas Became: In a world distracted and enamored by the artificial (like the aluminum Christmas trees Charlie Brown and Linus see on the tree farm), one man (well, both Charles Schulz and his fictional counterpart, Charlie Brown) stood up for the real.
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Reformed Christmas: It’s a Wonderful Life
“I know what I’m going to do tomorrow and the next day and the next year and the year after that: I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m going to see the world! Italy, Greece; the Parthenon, the Colosseum…Then I’m coming back here and go to college and…
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Reformed Christmas: Elf
In the story of Elf, the son searches for and saves the father. This is exactly the opposite of the Christmas story.
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Reformed Christmas: The Polar Express
In previous posts, I’ve shared how I interact with music and paintings, using them to intentionally focus on “whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable” (Phil. 4:8). It shouldn’t be a surprise that I’m the same way with movies. Even when I’m watching casually,…
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Give Thanks: The Gift of Memory
“Oma said, because they were too poor to go anywhere, [she and Opa] would put out a blanket and decide where they wanted to go, and they would lay out a blanket and have a picnic kind of thing, and they would just pretend that they were there.”
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Give Thanks: Art in Amsterdam
Of all painters, my top three happen to all be Dutch: They are Johannes Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. I love Vermeer’s attention to light, van Gogh’s attention to color, and Rembrandt’s attention to detail.
Detroit, Reformed. 