gomezeec's profile Brett McCracken / 25, Male / Member since April 2008 / Last seen 5 days ago
Brett lives in Los Angeles but has roots in the Midwest, as well as a continuing and vibrant streak of wanderlust (i.e. he travels a lot). He’s currently getting his Masters degree in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. In addition to being a full time student, Brett writes movie reviews and features for Christianity Today as well as contributing frequently to Relevant magazine.
In graduate school Brett’s research interests have focused on transcendent aesthetics in film, Christians and cinema, new media theory, user-generated content/wikinomics, and contemporary issues in the television industry.
Like anyone else, Brett spends his free time indulging in the finer things in life: church, family, friends, cinema, literature, music, poetry, sports, traveling, good food and drink, being outside, etc… He probably indulges in some of this a little too much (as it is his job to do so).
"The Search" is his first (and still experimental) foray into the blogosphere. The site was birthed out of a fascination with search engines (as the increasingly dominant metaphor of the 21st century experience) and a general affection for the existential notion of “the search” as coined in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. The Search exists for any and every one of us who—in seeking truth, dialogue, epiphany, and connection—feels the spiritual pull toward that state of “being on to something” bigger and brighter than ourselves.
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- Published a new blog post: Rick Warren as “The New James Dobson”: Pros and Cons
- Published a new blog post: Do Humans Have Souls?
- Published a new blog post: Why We’re Obsessed With Taking Crazy Risks
- Published a new blog post: Putting on a Front for the World
- Published a new blog post: Globalization, Obama, and Trafalgar Square
- Published a new blog post: The Communion of Saints
- Published a new blog post: Talking Singularity at Cambridge
- Published a new blog post: Update from Oxford: Part 2
- Published a new blog post: Update From Oxford
- Published a new blog post: Films About Guys Who Can’t Grow Up
- Published a new blog post: Another Sad Blow for Film Criticism
- Published a new blog post: What Was Going to Be My Epic Calvinism Post…
- Published a new blog post: Evil Incarnate in Cinema
- Published a new blog post: The Dark Knight
- Published a new blog post: Is “Online Community” an Oxymoron?
