{"id":2564,"date":"2007-03-13T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/doing-lunch.html"},"modified":"2007-03-13T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:24:23","slug":"doing-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/doing-lunch.html","title":{"rendered":"Doing lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I had the treat of lunching with Barbara Nicolosi<\/a>, who was in the area speaking at Huntington University, a small Christian liberal arts college.  <\/a> Greg Erlandson of OSV joined us (OSV is located in Huntington – Michael is out of town, dashing between southern Indiana and southern Kansas for various business-related reasons). It was a treat to finally meet Barbara, after reading her blog for years, enjoying her insights and commiserating with her about DVC and related matters. <\/p>\n

I hauled everyone back to Huntington this evening for Barbara’s talk – I wanted to hear her, but more than that, I wanted my wanna-be actress daughter to hear her speak about Christians doing film – and art in general. As you’d expect, Barbara is sharp and funny, and she presents a cogent case for art – what we do when we create, and what it means and what it takes to create meaningful, entertaining, haunting pieces of art. I heard most of it – we got there late, and I stayed outside the auditorium for a good chunk of the talk, sensing that Michael the Toddler had filled his Being Good Quote for the day at lunch (he was very <\/em>good). And…I was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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