It’s the biggest movie in years, crossing over from family and little girls who love princesses to being a global phenomenon. It’s a two-time Oscar winner with thousands of YouTube covers of its songs, and beginning its 16th week in theaters, even after it was released on Digital Download, it was number 6 at theContinue reading “10 Things You Can Learn from Disney’s “Frozen””
Author Archives: Duane S. Montague
What the Seattle Seahawks Can Teach Parents and Kids Everywhere
I’m not a football fan. I don’t obsess about records or scores. I can remember the names of players from my childhood better than the players who currently take the field. And yet, living in Seattle, it’s hard not to give in to the 12th Man. They’re everywhere. The people I work with are obsessed. Continue reading “What the Seattle Seahawks Can Teach Parents and Kids Everywhere”
Top 10 Albums of 2013
I have an eclectic taste in music, and I don’t listen to the radio. I enjoy music based on what I discover through experiences, through recommendations from friends, through browsing the playlists on Spotify and seeing what catches my eye and ear. The albums represented here are not the only ones I listened to inContinue reading “Top 10 Albums of 2013”
Top 10 Books of 2013
The best books I read this last year. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book is one of the most amazing biographies and histories I’ve ever read. When it comes to a historical figure as well-known as Lincoln, it may seem like there would be veryContinue reading “Top 10 Books of 2013”
A Jazzy, Classical, Somewhat Folky but Still Appalachian Christmas
Every year, I search for a great new Christmas album to add to my collection. With more than 11,150 Christmas songs in my collection since I began in 1987, I’ve heard everything. Good and bad. When you find a holiday album that is simply perfect in every way, it’s a cause for celebration. This year,Continue reading “A Jazzy, Classical, Somewhat Folky but Still Appalachian Christmas”
Disney’s “Frozen” is the Best Animated Musical in 20 Years
It’s the best animated musical since Beauty and the Beast. There. I said it. Walt Disney Feature Animation’s new film, Frozen, shows that a third golden age of Disney-style animated films (hinted at by The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, and Wreck-It-Ralph) may have just begun, and it should be the film that earns theContinue reading “Disney’s “Frozen” is the Best Animated Musical in 20 Years”
Time Matters
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12, NIV) In the seconds it takes you to read these sentence, time you will never get back is gone. Whether we like it or not, time slips quickly through our fingertips and the moment you thought you had toContinue reading “Time Matters”
Sorry, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving Isn’t About You.
Forget “Black Friday” sales or pumpkin pie or mashed potatoes. Thanksgiving isn’t about them. Forget the Pilgrims or the Plymouth Rock or the Wampanoags or Squanto. It isn’t about them either. At least it wasn’t in 1863, when Thanksgiving Day, as we know it now, first came to be. Abraham Lincoln wasn’t thinking about starchedContinue reading “Sorry, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving Isn’t About You.”
Thoughts After the Wedding
I had the privilege of officiating at a wedding yesterday. I’ve done a few weddings since becoming a pastor, but this one was extra special. I’d known the bride and groom since high school. I was the drama teacher where both of them were students. In fact, I’d cast them both in the classic playContinue reading “Thoughts After the Wedding”
This is Halloween
Halloween. There’s a lot of feelings Christians have about this holiday. I grew up going trick-or-treating, and only stopped because we moved and my parents weren’t sure of the neighborhood. We always decorated the house with Halloween decorations, still had Halloween parties, and even enjoyed It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, ever year. My familyContinue reading “This is Halloween”
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