by Rhett Smith | May 13, 2015 | Podcast
In the Summer of 2008 I was sitting in my inlaw’s home office working on their computer. My wife, 1 year old daughter and I had just moved from Los Angeles to Dallas to live a more compelling story, but we knew very few people except for some family we had in...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 3, 2015 | Marriage
Back in the beginning of December, my friend Tyler Davis Jones mailed me a copy of Donald Miller’s new book Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy. Tyler picked it up at the Storyline Conference he attended. I was so thankful to get this great...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 31, 2010 | Intentional Living
[image by epSos.de] God is Not Safe, So Why Do We Play So Safely There are lots of books, stories and examples displaying how we tend to play life too safely at times, and the need for us to overcome this complacency. One of the examples that is always in my mind is...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 5, 2009 | Intentional Living
[image by Maria Keay] For those who choose to take the journey, it is lifelong. The longer the journey, the more nuances it takes on and the more it opens up to broader experiences. Yet, a journey must progress step by step. So it is with our spiritual journey. (pp....
by Rhett Smith | Sep 29, 2009 | Writing
What would one’s life look like if it was written with, and contained the elements that make for a good story? This is the fundamental question that I believe Donald Miller is after in his new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 17, 2009 | Writing
It seems we all like books. And we especially like making lists of books. In 2005 I wrote The Five Books I Would Recommend to a College Student…or Actually, to Anyone!, and listed in another post the Top 100 Religious Books of the 20th Century According to...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 12, 2008 | Faith
Will Smith was on Good Morning Texas talking about his new movie Seven Pounds yesterday and he began to talk about his value on the idea of “story” as in relation to his movie choices. I then sent out this Tweet: listening to Will Smith talk about the...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 3, 2008 | Faith
Great blog post by Donald Miller, From Reagan to Obama, a Brief Political History Our theology insinuated that shortly after original sin, once Adam and Eve at the apple, they registered as Democrats and went on with their lives, trying to create large governments...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 28, 2008 | Faith
I found this video of Donald Miller’s pre-benediction video over at Brian Kiley’s blog. The video is done by Sarah Pulliam for Christianity Today. Good video. Curious what you think? I hesitate to get into politics because it never seems to turn out...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 18, 2008 | Leadership
Last week I was debating on whether or not I should attend the ECHO Conference, mainly because I was pretty exhausted from just moving here. And second, I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to pay the $329 for the conference. I debated, but ultimately I felt like it...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 16, 2008 | Faith
Donald Miller is by far one of my favorite authors. Blue Like Jazz changed my thinking radically, and what I want in a good book. You can read here about the night we had him out to speak to our college ministry. Recently I have been following him on Twitter and am...
by Rhett Smith | Jan 16, 2008 | Leadership
Last night our college ministry partnered with our Middle School, High School and Young Adult Departments in hosting a night with Shane Claiborne called, “Have Less, Live More.” It was the culmination of six months of collaborative study and teaching on...
