Vote Rosebud for CBC Cultureville

I've done a number of photo shoots in Rosebud over the years and it's always been worth the trip. So please join me in voting Rosebud for Alberta's Cultureville. And if my pictures aren't enough checkout the video on why Rosebud should get your vote. - Peace

Q Interview With Screen Writter for the King's Speech

Interesting to hear how David Seidler's story and the story of the movie meshed. He was inspired by King George VI to over come his own stuttering. He waited years to write this movie because the Queen Mother asked him to. Listen to the Q Interview with David Seidler.

BTW: Three Generations of Kings saw the King's Speech over Christmas break. We all enjoyed it.

The Other Hitchens on Q

Peter Hitchens was on Q on Friday. Enjoyed the interview. Adding his book to my to read list. "The Rage Against God". Part-memoir, part-polemic, the book traces his personal journey from atheism to faith and challenges some of the atheist arguments in his brother Christopher's best-seller, "God Is Not Great."

- Peace

Age of Persuasion: Selling God

I love catching the Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio One while driving around Saturday afternoons. We all complain about advertising, but rarely think about it. AoP is a thoughtful creative look at the world of marketing. I think they've hit a new high with "Selling God". A look at the intersection between marketing and faith and why it makes many of us a bit nervous.

- Peace

Vinyl Cafe Date

The Vinyl Cafe is in Calgary tonight and Kim is taking me :) Will update with a review after the show.

Update: Stewart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe crew put on quite a show, warm, friendly, smart with good music just as a packed room of CBC listeners would like to picture themselves. Live the Vinyl Cafe is almost as smooth as the Radio show, though the highlight of the evening was Stewart mixing up the words nozzle and novel. When he did get it right the crowd cheered so loud that he had to try again, only to mix it up again. If you're a fan of the show seeing it live worth it.

- Peace

The City of Words

The 2007 Massey Lectures will be broadcast this week on CBC's Ideas. I've enjoyed the Massey Lectures in the past, when I've caught them, but this year's description caught my attention.

The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society. “How do stories help us perceive ourselves and others?” he asks. “How can stories lend a whole society an identity...?” From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don Quixote to The Fast Runner, Alberto Manguel explores how books and stories hold the secret keys to what binds us together.

Emphasis is mine.

- Peace

Tony Campolo on CBC's The Hour

Tony Campolo was on the Hour last night, here's what The Hour web site has to say about Tony:

In Canada, about 23 million people consider themselves 'Christian,' in one way or another. But for the most part, religion and politics are separate.

Different story in the U.S., especially, when it comes to the Christian right. Religion and politics get mixed up together.

Tonight, we've got a guy who knows all about it.

His name is Tony Campolo, one of America's most influential preachers. He does charity work, he's written dozens of books, and, he was Bill Clinton's spritual advisor during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

These days, he has a new book out, it's called 'Letters to a Young Evangelical.'

But Tony is a different kind of Evangelical.

The interview runs for about 10 minutes and is worth a watch.

- Peace