Cecil B. Demille, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have all made movies about the life of Christ. Now Bollywood is getting in on the act. The as-yet untitled biopic--claimed by studio Aditya Productions as a first for the Indian film industry--is expected to start filming soon.

Justin Taylor, Collin Hansen, Kevin DeYoung, and I recently discussed the importance and practice of writing well. Why should Christians write well? What does good writing look like? How do you improve, and how do you find the time?

From a music lover's perspective, the most interesting announcement to arrive during this morning's fall Apple presentation was the unveiling of Ping, a social network that's part of the dominant iTunes application. Apple CEO Steve Jobs called it "Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes ... but it's not Facebook, it's not Twitter. It's a social network all about music."

The innovation in The Mongoliad isn't in its team writing effort, however: It's in the entire concept of a serialized, dynamic, digital "book" that includes video, imagery, music, and background articles among the text of the storyline and comes with a social media companion, with which fans/readers can comment and interact.

Apple's upgraded wireless media streaming feature, now known as AirPlay, will soon offer video and photo streaming to Apple TV directly from iOS 4.2 devices, and allows users to send music and album art to third-party hardware.

Read this entry today...well done and insightful. Fun.

Six music students, six different backgrounds, six different parts of America. It's fitting that when they decided to get together, they'd call themselves Mosaic.

"The American" is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art-house thriller that's more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one. If Robert Bresson, the austere French minimalist, had directed a James Bond film, it might have turned out like this.

I am happy to announce that Crossway has released early renderings for the upcoming Four Holy Gospels project. The leather-bound bible will feature five new large works and dozens of smaller "letters" paintings as drop caps. The project will be released in January 2011 in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and company have, for the past five years, used September as the time to announce new products and services among the company's music offerings. Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about new product announcements. But that hasn't stopped the usual spate of speculation that precedes them (some of it actually based on leaks and other real information). So here are our thoughts on which of the rumors swirling around the internet may actually make their way into Jobs' presentation and which will remain mere figments of Apple fanboy (and girl) imagination.