Hey – yesterday we finished What's in the Bible #5!  It's off for DVD mastering, and then will slowly make its way through the distribution channel and into stores in February. What's more, #6 is now in animation!  It's scripted, storyboarded, cut, and sent off to our animators working here and there.  Now it's time [...]

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This is a little concerning.  Are you familiar with the Manhattan Declaration?  Chuck Colsen and quite a few other leaders in the evangelical world came together to sign a statement reinforcing their commitment to the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and a few other key social issues.  More than a half-million Christians – by one [...]

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There is a lot going on around here this days… this week we're assembling What's in the Bible #5, and I just sent out the script for #6 to our content review board.  I spent the day Wednesday speaking with digital media students at Huntington University in Indiana – ex-Big Idea artists Steve Leeper and [...]

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Thanks for all the great feedback on What's in the Bible!  A number of you have been asking for a bit of a roadmap for the rest of the series, so you have a better feel for how we're moving through the Bible.  So here goes… DVD #4 will be in stores in another week [...]

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Yeah, so I haven't blogged in a while.  Sorry about that, it's been a wild couple of weeks. Three weeks ago I was in St. Louis for the big Christian booksellers convention.  The convention isn't as big as it used to be, since, well, there aren't as many Christian retailers as there used to be, [...]

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So we're back from London!  Okay, we've been back for a few weeks, and I haven't given you an update lately because, well, I've been busy.  Darn busy.  But I thought I'd better give you an update before you all decide I must have disappeared in an ash cloud somewhere over Iceland. London was great, [...]

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We just got a couple of cases of DVD #3 in the office here in Wheaton, and they look great.  They should be arriving at your local Christian bookstore any time now.  If you can't find them there, you can order from our own website.  DVD #3 finishes the Pentateuch, and ends with a big [...]

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Hey ho – after much tweaking, What's in the Bible #3 has left the building!  It's off to the duplicators and should be in stores before Father's Day.  The fearsome beasts of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy have been slayed, and, hopefully, rendered at least moderately understandable for kids!  (We'll see how that goes once they [...]

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Check out this review of "What's in the Bible?" that just came in from the Dallas Theological Seminary book review blog.  They like it!  They really like it!  Read it here.

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Well,  What's in the Bible episodes 1 & 2 are officially out now, and we're having fun reading some of the early reviews.  This is a really cute one that a dad blogger wrote with his kids… check it out here. I got to show the entire first DVD (nearly an hour long in total) [...]

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