Dec 10, 2022
In this episode, Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline talk about the concept of “the artist’s platform.” Many artists hate the term platform. But if you are a storyteller who wants to share your story, building a platform is almost as important as creating the story itself. The cohosts sit down at the digital pub table to...
Dec 3, 2022
Most Christmas movies are obviously Christmas movies, but other movies are more difficult to categorize. Sure, people watch them around Christmas, but are they really Christmas movies? Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline discuss the criteria for whether a movie should be considered a Christmas movie and then discuss a number of...
Nov 18, 2022
Matt and Mandy sit down with fellow novelist Tracy Higley to discuss writing and the concept of an inner world of Joy. A prolific novelist, Tracy sees art as stemming from an urge to communicate, often an urge that comes from an inner world of joy. Tracy, Many and Matt discuss joy as a longing sparked by beauty that...
Nov 12, 2022
A thin place is a location where the veil between this world and the spiritual world is thin. In these places, kairos time — the experience of eternity breaking into time, a sort of time that feels timeless — comes into contact with a particular place that creates a unique experience for a person. Evangeline, Mandy,...
Nov 5, 2022
Matt Mellema welcomes a quartet of new and old guests — Brian Brown, Matthew Clark, Amber Salladin, and Ashlee Cowles — to the pub table for the annual Believe to See fantasy pub table draft. From a line-up of 20 literary characters curated by Matt Mellema (think Dolores Umbridge, Merlin, and Winnie the Pooh) the...