New for August at Liftedmagazine.com!!

Food & Healthy Living

Jesse Brune: Your Happy Living Expert
Brune is a certified trainer and chef, and shares some of his philosophy on staying healthy, what to eat, and the mindset and emotional side of a workout routine. In this candid interview, Brune talks with Lifted Magazine’s Andrew Moreno about his past struggles with his own insecurities, while also speaking to the importance of remaining positive.


Relationships

From This Side of the Aisle
As this month's Lifted newsletter is published, Michael D. Duty celebrates eleven years of marriage to his wonderful wife. Along the way, they've both grown, matured and changed.


Election 2008

Dr. George Phillies – A New Kind of President
As our political dialog continues, Lifted Magazine and Andrew Moreno decided to continue in our pursuit to fully educate our readers on select presidential candidates. This time around, Lifted Magazine's Andrew Moreno sat down with Dr. George Phillies, a 2008 Libertarian Presidential Candidate.


Ministry Showcase

Art Informed by Faith
Sometimes something influences your life unexpectedly. You read a book, meet a person or experience a loss or illness and your life changes. If the influence is profound enough, your world view may even change. For Raleigh artist Kathy Ammon it was a sermon (or to be exact a series of sermons) she heard at her new church, Apex United Methodist Church, that moved her life and her art into a new direction.


Read more of our recently added Faith articles:

• God Knows Best
• To Catch A Rainbow
• The Past At Your Doorstep
• What Am I Worth?

Read more of our recently added entertainment articles:

• A New Day...with Céline Dion
• The 9th Annual CineVegas Film Festival
• New Releases: Le Vie En Rose
• And the winner is...John Heffron

What's coming up soon on LiftedMagazine.com?

• Brett Barrett from Las Vegas' Phantom of the Opera
• Career: Interviewing as a Christian
• College: Tips for Entering Freshmen
• We Are Marshall DVD Review
• Theatrical Review of The Elephant Man
• and much, much more!

A change in publications

Over the past two years, the staff of Lifted Magazine has worked very hard to produce PDF editions of our digital magazine for our readers to enjoy. But demand has dropped and we find that more and more people are just reading the articles online instead of downloading the PDF. Therefore, we will no longer be publishing PDF editions of Lifted Magazine but will focus on bringing more new articles to our readers throughout the month and publish a monthly newsletter highlighting our best new articles to make sure you don't miss the best of the best. We were pouring a WHOLE lot of time and resources into producing the PDF issues so it will be a lot more beneificial to everyone if we drop them.

Our newsletters will now arrive once a month and will feature the best of the best new articles we are adding online. We will continue to feature many of the new articles here as well so that you don't miss out on anything!

There will also be some changes coming up on the website which we will certainly announce here too so check back often or subscribe to this blog :)

June/July 2007 Issue Now Online

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Featured Inside

The Inside Story: Ron McGehee - Read online now
Getting Personal: Gloria Jean - Read online now
Out & About: Theater ~ Phantom of the Opera - Read online now
Special: Summer Fun - PDF Exclusive
Career: Coping with Time-Related Stress - Read online now
Career Quiz: How Stressed Are You? - PDF Exclusive
Environment: What is Global Warming? - Read online now
Environment: Global Warming - Fact or Fiction? - Read online now
Election 2008: Dr. Kent Mesplay - Read online now
Faith: Run the Race- Read online now
Faith: Hezekiah's Tunnel - Read online now
Faith: Brief Encounters - Read online now
Faith: Wounding Words - Read online now
Testimonies: Flightless Angels - Read online now
Ministries: Ministry Blackout ~ Grounded for Life - Read online now
Ministries: Connecting to Make a Difference - Read online now
New Movie Releases: Gracie - Read online now
Book Review: Kiss of a Dolphin - Read online now
Poetry: Food for the Hungry - Read online now
Poetry: Summertime - Read online now

Sneak Peak June/July Issue: Gracie Movie Review

Entertainment writer Sophia M. Papadopolous caught an early preview of Gracie, to be released this Friday, June 1st. Here is an excerpt from her review. Click here to read the full review and movie trivia.

In a time when women’s soccer did not exist, Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder) a 15 year old teenager from New Jersey finds herself fighting for her right to play on an all boys varsity soccer team. Taking place in 1978, when women are still fighting for their rights and trying to prove that they too are just as smart and able-bodied as men, Gracie proves to herself and to all those who doubt her that she can handle this intensely physical “male sport.” Growing up in a household with three soccer obsessed brothers and a father (Dermot Mulroney) who thinks soccer isn’t a girl’s sport, Gracie not only struggles to find her place in a male dominated household, she also has to prove to her toughest critic [her father] that she too can play just as hard and rough as the boys.

When her older brother and star of the high school soccer team dies in a tragic car accident, Gracie and her family are distraught over the loss. Her only confidant and protector is now gone, but she will not allow his memory and his dream to die with him. Wanting to prove her skills and win the nationals for the team, Gracie petitions the school to allow her to take the place of her brother on the soccer team. After many discouraging comments from the coach, the guys on the team, and her own father’s skewed view of her abilities as a girl, she wins them over with her un-dying determination and commitment. Her father, a past star high school soccer player himself, begins to steadily come around, as he starts training her just as hard as he trained her brother.

This film demonstrated that woman can in fact do anything men can do, even though our patriarchic society does not seem to think so. It also demonstrated how hard women have had to fight to be heard and seen as equals. This movie was a great testament that women’s abilities are not determined by their bodies, but by their intellectual strength, courage, and will to strive. We too can fight like the “Big Boys,” on and off the field!

New April/May Issue Out Now

If you haven't dropped by LiftedMagazine.com to read the new issue, you can download the PDF here or read any of the articles below.



Out & About: Movies ~ Cinequest Film Festival - Read online now
The Inside Story: Ben Byer's Indestructible Spirit - Read online now
Career: Lessons From My Little Red Notebook - Read online now
Career Quiz: Are You Good With Money? - PDF Exclusive
Faith: Resurrection from Perfection - Read online now
Faith: Why Believe the Bible? - Read online now
Faith: The Battle Belongs to the Lord - Read online now
Faith: Drop That Mask - Read online now
Faith: Love in the True Sense - Read online now
Testimonies: "Isn't It Dangerous?"- Read online now
Ministries: Artist to Artist - John Bramblitt - Read online now
Poetry: Reflection - Read online now
Poetry: Do You Wanna Be Healed? - Read online now
Poetry: The Lion in the Heart of the Lamb - Read online now