Modern Day – Page 5

I think a lot

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don’t take the time to learn the basics. Alvin Lee

So, the next film won’t necessarily be modern-day Albany, Georgia but we’re grateful for the films we’ve made (with Sherwood). The church is an amazing church. We’re gonna grow as filmmakers and invest in the next generation of upcoming filmmakers and try to duplicate what we’re doing. Alex Kendrick

We made four feature

We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set … Read more

Peter Minuet, who said

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner! Red Buttons

It’s modern-day slavery.
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It’s modern-day slavery. Adrian Peterson

I was a big

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell. Adam Sandler

The pretended physical philosophy

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. Adam Sedgwick

In his fierce, bold

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in … Read more

Walking with someone through

Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn’t like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we’ve got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we … Read more

Within the universe of

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. — from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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