For those of you who are praying for the Hodge family, the best way to stay informed on Matt's condition is to follow this link and sign up to receive email updates from Tim and Sandy.  Matt seems to be stabilizing and is showing some very limited response to stimuli, but is far from being […]

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Well, the good news is that Tim Hodge's son Matthew is still with us this morning (Monday morning).  He made it through the night and is headed in for surgery to relieve additional pressure in his head.  I don't believe he has been conscious since the car accident Saturday evening, so there is still the […]

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This is a very brief post with a heavy heart.  Longtime VeggieTales writer/director Tim Hodge and his family need our prayers right now - they're 18 year-old son Matthew was in a car accident last night and is currently fighting for his life in a Nashville hospital.  Pray for the doctors currently working on Matthew, […]

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Okay, it wasn't in honor of my birthday (which is, in fact, today), but be that as it may, Stephen Colbert mentioned Larry the Cucumber and showed a "mash-up" clip from VeggieTales against one of the veggie worship songs last night on his show.  As with most Stephen Colbert shows, this clip has one mildly […]

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The saga of Big Idea continues.  Way back in 2003, the assets of Big Idea Productions were bought by a company called Classic Media, run by two guys named John Engelman and Eric Ellenbogen.  In 2007 John and Eric sold Classic Media and the new Big Idea to a British company called Entertainment Rights, which […]

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So I seem to have joined the "Children's Pastor's Conference of the Week Club" without realizing it. Last week I was in Greenville, SC to speak at a denominational conference.  The week before I was in Toledo speaking at a regional conference put on by Westgate Chapel, the church that my Great Grandpa Vischer […]

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So I've got a cold.  A nasty cold.  I couldn't record VeggieTales characters to save my life right now - they'd all come out sounding like some really sick guy pretending to be VeggieTales characters.  Which isn't all that funny.
But I had to do three radio interviews this morning, one at 7:20am.  (Shout out to […]

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I just got back to Wheaton after two days of veggie recording in Nashville, which was a bit grueling.  We recorded the next veggie video and a veggie worship album in one trip.  I think I spent 12 hours in a sound booth yelling and singing over a two day period.  Hack!  Argh.  (Remember "Bill […]

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Well, it was a tough week, but we made it through.  I've talked with a bunch of the folks who got laid off from Big Idea on Monday, and their attitudes are amazingly good.  Without exception (at least the ones I spoke to), they all appreciate the time they spent at Big Idea and the […]

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My apologies to those of you who were unable to take the JellyTelly survey yesterday.  Due to a technical glitch, the survey was unavailable for a couple of hours last night.  It's up and running again, so if you were unable to take it, now you can.
Click on this link to take the survey and […]

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