New site design!
I have been a writer of the reticent sort in the blogosphere for some time now. I will henceforth make an effort to share a bit more knowledge and creativity and inspiration as it comes to me, rather than holding back in scorn of this...
D-Day
A picture and letter from my great-grandfather Ross Bryan to great-grandmother Marguerite and their daughter Linda (my grandmother, Dad's mother), when he was off at war. The letter reads: 27 Oct. 1944 Margie and Linda, I love you both with all my heart and hope this...
Happy Tax Day
My latest at Brenner Brief... Rendering unto Caesar in a progressive tax system Rather than say that taxes shouldn’t be paid at all, or that Caesar has a unlimited right of taxation, Christ put Caesar in his limited place. May the deductions be ever in your favor! Now...
Amanda Read and Phelim McAleer on the Sara Marie Brenner Show
It's no April Fool's Day prank. Tune in tonight (8 P.M. Eastern, 7 P.M. Central) to hear Sara Marie Brenner and me discuss Phelim McAleer's latest film project, a crowdfunded TV drama about abortionist Kermit Gosnell. www.SaraMarieBrenner.com/Radio UPDATE: Here is the...
Mr. Director and Madam Screenwriter Go to Washington
That's a Doodle Knits scarf made by my sister Abigail that I'm wearing, by the way. It was quite the hit in National Harbor and Washington as we filmed interviews for Tea Party News Network at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference and an interview for an...
Striking, Sound, Speed, And…Action!
That's what we've heard a lot of around here as of late. It is an incredible moment as a writer to see the characters one has dreamed up and created come to life. There they are! View more photographs on our Facebook page, and check out the cast and crew run down on...
A Call For Dr. Carson
Dr. Benjamin Carson brings a surgeon’s hand and eye to the health care debate...read my report in The Washington Times Communities.
ROMANS XIII (Casting Call)
Are you ready for this? Investigative blogger Virtus Coolidge thinks little of the flash drive given to him by new media mogul Andrew Romans until Romans’ sudden death. Virtus discovers he has inherited a mysterious list that intertwines the fate of his friends and...
Film School 101
About that whole interested-in-filmmaking talk I've been rambling on for the past half a decade...Well, it's finally being realized. Matthew Perdie moved to Alabama, and has temporarily taken up residence in the Fair Hills Farm Guest House as a live-in tutor in...
Acton University 2013 in a Michigan Summer
Just over a month ago (already?!) I attended this year's edition of Acton University. The evening before flying out of Birmingham, Grandmomma and I attended a Fixed Point Foundation event at the Red Cat on "Making Sense of Old Testament Violence," which was an...
A New Season
Nearly to my surprise, the time has finally arrived. I'm now, as I lightheartedly define it, a Magna Cum Laude History Bachelorette of Science. "Troy University - This certifies that The Board of Trustees of Troy University upon Recommendation of the Faculty Has...
Behind the Scenes, Spring Break Style
On March 9th, my Term III 2013 at Troy ended and Matthew Perdie arrived for a brainstorming visit. After helping us set up our new green screen and lights... ...Matthew and I got to work planning our first web series... Such a creative day at Fair Hills Farm! We're...
