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Tell Your Whole Story: Why Confession Matters

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Phill Lytle 2 Comments Accountability, Andrew Peterson, Christian Living, Christianity, Failure, Faith, Faithful, Family, Finances, Forgiveness, God, grace, Honest, Love, marriage, North! or Be Eaten, Proverbs, Sin, Story, Thankful, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, The Wingfeather Saga, Trust

Telling your whole story is good for the soul.

Literature Music

90s Country And The Art Of The 4-Minute Story

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 Gowdy Cannon 10 Comments A Boy Named Sue, Alan Jackson, Alison Krauss, Bible, Blackhawk, Bobbie Gentry, Brad Paisley, Bubba Shot the Jukebox, Cat's In the Cradle, Charlie Daniels, Colin Raye, Country Music, David Allen Coe, Don't Take the Girl, Fancy, Garth Brooks, Good-bye Earl, Harry Chapin, I Don't Even Know Your Name, Jeff Carson, Joe Diffie, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Little Rock, Lucky Moon, Mark Chesnutt, music, Oak Ridge Boys, Outskirts of Town, Postmarked Birmingham, Reba McEntire, Sawyer Brown, She Thinks His Name Was John, She's In Love With The Boy, Somebody, Story, That Summer, The Car, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, The Gambler, The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, The Ride, The Thunder Rolls, Theology, Third Rock from the Sun, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Upstairs Downtown, Vicki Lawrence, Walkaway Joe, Whiskey Lullaby, Worldview

90s Country Music gave us numerous songs that showed us the power of the art of the four-minute story.

TV deaths

The Five Most Devastating TV Deaths

May 13, 2022May 20, 2022 Phill Lytle 8 Comments Breaking Bad, Characters, Death, Downton Abbey, Drama, Grief, Lost, Sadness, Story, Storyline, Television, The Walking Dead, TV

Five TV Deaths that almost killed me.

Londonderry Aire

My Love Affair with Music – Londonderry Aire

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Steve Lytle 1 Comment ballad, Barbara Allen, Charles Spurgeon, Classical Music, Commonwealth Games, Danny Boy, Dottie Rambo, English, folk song, He Looked Beyond My Fault, I Cannot Tell Why the Angels Worship, I Go to the Rock, If That Isn't Love, Irish, Kentucky, Loch Lomond, Londonderry Aire, Lyrics, music, Northern Ireland, Poetry, Sandy Patty, Scottish, Story, Tears Will Never Stain the Streets of That City, The Fields of Athenry, We Shall Behold Him, William Young Fullerton

My 70-year love affair with music intrigues and fascinates me. I’ve asked myself many times how to explain my fascination with music and lyrics. I only know that that ballads resonate with me and always have.

The Arts Theology

The Pursuit of Perfect Fiction

April 29, 2019July 25, 2019 D.A. Speer 6 Comments Beauty, Story, Truth

Is looking for the perfect story a hopeless pursuit?

Literature Film The Arts Theology

On Stories, Questions, and the Power of the One True Myth

October 23, 2016September 3, 2020 Phill Lytle 7 Comments Books, Christianity, Doubts, Faith, Fantasy, Harry Potter, Hope, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, Reading, Scripture, Sovereignty, Story, The Lord of the Rings, True Myth, Truth

Is God powerful enough to take our wounds and our brokenness and turn them into something beautiful? Can He redeem our suffering and give us our own happily ever after?