by Kevin Ott | Dec 28, 2017 | Artist's Corner, Featured, General Christian Topics
(Syndicated from the Stabs of Joy blog.) Note to the reader: the Keller Project has a simple goal: write/post my sermons notes for every sermon preached by Bible scholar Timothy Keller since 1989. Keller is the author of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of...
by Kevin Ott | Dec 10, 2017 | Artist's Corner, Featured, General Music/Artists
[Note: This review will take a tour through the new U2 album from a music theory, orchestration, and songwriting perspective, in a language that anyone can understand whether you studied music or not. (I got my B.A. in Music Composition, which is why I’m...
by Kevin Ott | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured, Movies/TV/Books
Denzel Washington makes fascinating movies. The projects he selects are always thought-provoking and tend to focus on big questions that pull us out of the day-to-day, in-the-flesh life of immanence and into the transcendent. Roman J. Israel, Esq. is no exception,...
by Kevin Ott | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured, Movies/TV/Books
“No one’s ordinary. Everyone deserves a standing ovation at least once in their lives.” This is one of my favorite lines from “Wonder.” When you see it spoken in context you’ll see that it’s not talking about the shallow, self-obsessed, entitled “snowflake”...
by Kevin Ott | Nov 5, 2017 | Celebrity Interviews, Featured, Movies/TV/Books
Photos by fashion photographer Gerald Pierre. It’s not every day you get to interview 1) the actor who plays a real life soldier in a true war story; and 2) the actual soldier himself, standing side-by-side with the actor who plays him. Yet this happened to me a...
