They called him the “Phantom Philanthropist”. Two weeks ago there were at least a dozen reports around the HRM about a stranger handing out fifty and hundred dollar bills along with five dollar coins. In some reports he asked people to pay it forward, in other cases people were simply asked to thank God for…
Noah, not the Movie
Has everyone heard about the movie coming out next week called Noah? That was the trailer for it. Now understand that Noah, the Movie is not the same as Noah the Bible story. And they’ve tried to tweak it to make it work, as a biblical epic, but it just doesn’t. They’ve tried focus groups…
Lost. . .
It’s baffling and just a little bit scary. We are constantly reminded in today’s world of the fact that Big Brother is watching, with its satellites and endless array of electronic goodies, and that whatever liberties we give up it’s for a greater good. The world is a safer place. So how could they lose…
Moses, A Long Way From Nothing
He was a hero. And not just in the Bible but also on the big screen. But that wasn’t the way his life began. He was born as the son of slaves, his immediate future looked bleak and short. Nobody would have assumed that his name would ever be known outside of his immediate family…
Missing
How long would you have to be gone before someone noticed that you were missing? A couple of days, a week, a month? How about six years? The body of Pia Farrenkopf—a forty-nine-year-old woman from Pontiac, Michigan—was discovered sitting in her Jeep Liberty, parked in her garage last week. Authorities assume that Ms. Farrenkopf’s body…
A Lion of a Prayer
It’s one of those phrases that you hear every once in a while but I’m not always sure that those using it are aware of the context. It often involves someone who is in a tough spot and they will say “I felt like Daniel in the lions den.” But it is just something they…
Tick, Tock
I wonder what the recent crisis in Ukraine will do to the Doomsday Clock? The iconic clock was sitting at five minute until midnight the first of January but you have to wonder if the Bear flexing his muscles again will make any difference at all? The Doomsday Clock isn’t an actual clock, instead it…
Bend, Bow or Burn
They had always wondered what it would like to stare into the face of imminent death. Well actually they had never wondered what it would be like to stare into the face of imminent death, but here they were anyway. Three young men who were only doing what they thought was right and now they…