Sorry it has been a while since I last updated the blog. I am not going to lie, blog post usually take me a while… hours to be more exact…actually, depending on how I feel about the subject, I have been known to take days. So the reason you haven’t heard from me in a while is really quite simple, I have not had the time.

But today I was thinking, part of the purpose of this blog is to let you all know about the movie production stuff. Thus, I thought I would give you a short update about why I haven’t had time to write.

Last week we were in Mississippi interviewing John Perkins. I am not sure how many of you are familiar with him. If you are not, and care about racial reconciliation or community development you should surely check him out.

We were only in Mississippi for a day… left at 3am on Wednesday and arrived back at 4am Thursday. To say the least it was one hell of a day, but worth it to be able to spend time with Dr. Perkins. He really is quite a remarkable man and I think that my time spent with him will have lasting impacts on my life.

The next few days were spent recovering from that trip and gearing up for our next one to Princeton, NJ where the Envision Conference was being held. In all honesty, I was bummed that we covering this conference because I wanted nothing more than to be fully immersed within it. The whole weekend was about Faith, Politics and the Future. There were a lot of interesting voices speaking out on the subject, bringing with them a great diversity in opinion.

I wish I had more time to share with you all everything I learned, and tell you all about the awesome people we meant over the weekend. Since I don’t I will tell you about the two highlights. One of them was driving back and forth to the conference with Chris Haw (co-author of Jesus for President). Chris is a man filled with wisdom and knowledge, and it was a great privilege to spend time picking his brain. We talked about faith and politics, the church’s addiction to power, and how to create systemic change… oh yeah and how cool the Amish are. If any of you are debating whether or not you should go to the Jesus for President tour let me end that debate for you right now, you should. Really, don’t miss the opportunity to listen to Chris speak, if it doesn’t change your life it will certainly make you smarter.

My other highlight was time spent with two aboriginal folks named Terry LeBlanc and Ray Alderd. They shared with me thoughts on Christianity from their Native worldview. And also got me thinking further about racial reconciliation and how to go about that… so maybe I will write more on that topic later.Right now though, I need to finish gearing up for an interview with Jim Wallis later this week. And then after that we are off on the tour! Oh man life is crazy busy right now!

Oh yeah, and we also got a new intern here at the shop named Chris, and so you can expect to read some blogs from him for a while as well.