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As chestnuts are roasting over an open fire, you’re lighting up the tree and lighting up your… laptop screen… we believe we can help you use your holiday screen-time for something more productive than Zoom meetings or doomscrolling. We at Forefront Festival have compiled another Forefront Last Minute Shopping Guide — a short, curated, hyperlinked list of Christmas gift ideas …
To Beach Their Own: Beach Reads are Real Reads Happy Summer. I don’t know about you, but when I go to the beach, I immediately want to perfect my backstroke in the ocean, windsurf, and play an intense five rounds of beach volleyball. Okay, I’m absolutely kidding. If I go to the beach, I want to sit in a turtleneck …
What a read. What a brilliant, dense, and far-reaching study of the relationship between art, artist, and the living Creator. Makoto Fujimura’s Art + Faith: A Theology of Making hits deeply upon so many different roads one can take at the many-pronged intersection of art, work, faith, theology, productivity, humanity, and eternity. In this decided fullness, the book feels almost conclusive, even though it swims in a topic that is (wonderfully) inexhaustible…
If you’ve ever enjoyed the 1996 Schwarzenegger holiday classic “Jingle All the Way”, you know just how difficult, stress-inducing, and dare we say life-threatening getting the perfect Christmas gifts for your loved ones and neighbors can be. To alleviate some of these more negative possibilities and to spread cheer, we have compiled a short list of stellar last-minute Christmas gift …
Amid the bevy of opinions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the qualifier ‘unprecedented’ seems to be one of the few descriptors we’re all in agreement on. It appears that not a single sphere of modern life has evaded the reach of sweeping measures put in place to mitigate contagion and suffering. From the effects of broad economic shutdown on virtually every …
“It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.”Terrence Malick’s new film, A Hidden Life, is based on the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer. The film begins in 1939 when Jägerstätter lives a seemingly idyllic life in the Austrian countryside. He farms the land, lives in a tight-knit community, and has a happy family. Scenes depict Jägerstätter …
Forefront Festival board member Cody Schweickert reviews “Black Sunday,” a book of poetry by Dr. Benjamin Myers.
As a lover of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, I have waited with wincing anticipation for the release of the new biopic. Honestly, I worried and fussed in all the days leading up to the screening of Tolkien.On the one hand, I really wanted to love this film. I love biopics, where in the warp and weft of great filmmaking, a director …
In the summer of 2014, I enjoyed the enormous blessing of spending the summer working at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. Lodging a stone’s throw from the oft erupting Old Faithful Geyser in the heart of the world’s first National Park was a wild pleasure I’ll never forget. Propelled by a desire to enjoy more of God’s …
I love podcasts. They’re a great form of media for many reasons: they’re free, they’re always available to stream or download, there’s a topic for everyone, and you can listen to them while you do other things (like driving or mowing the lawn or washing dishes).But I love them primarily because they help me think more clearly about things I …
