Posts with the category “hpn-member-op-ed”

When I first moved to L.A., I thought of networking as walking into a room full of strangers with a stack of business cards and attempting to swap info with as many people as possible. And, to be fair, sometimes networking is like that. But after nine years in L.A., I’ve realized that my best connections usually happen when I’m not trying to network at all. I’m just out in the world, living my life, doing things I personally find interesting. Not only am I generally more relaxed and gregarious when I’m not in meeting-strangers-mode, I’m also participating in something else that, for many years, I didn’t fully recognize for what it was: being led by the Holy Spirit...  Read More

An op-ed written by Tivoli Silas: It’s all too common in today’s divisive world to hear fans complain over the tiniest crumbs of news relating to their favorite fandoms. But once in a while, some entertainment news justifies the resulting backlash. Such is the case for the announcement, on April Fool’s Day, unfortunately, that Meryl Streep is in talks to play Aslan in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. While these are only talks and Streep has not been officially cast in the role, this brings disturbing implications for the series going forward...  Read More