Here’s an interesting story worth checking out about how reading Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life helped turn Michael Phelps life around in 2014. See what you think. BW3 http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/08/19/eric-metaxas-michael-phelps-was-contemplating-suicide-and-then-he-was-given-a-famous-christian-book/ Read more
If Meryl Streep is America’s ‘every woman’ or at least can play them all, then Tom Hanks is clearly our ‘every man’, and in this Clint Eastwood film he gets to play what we would called a true hero— Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who miraculously landed a plane on the Hudson in the winter of 2009 with the rescue of all souls on board. This film is tight and taut, lasting only 96 minutes which fairly fly by. You might... Read more
Here’s one of my musical heroes and influences— David Crosby, who releases a new album soon, at age 75….. amazing. See what you think. BW3 Read more
The ax man cometh…. and no one can sleep. Don’t fear the riffer…. fear the shredder:) Read more
One thing we know for sure about Edinburgh resident J.K. Rowling— she knows how to right long novels which keep people’s attention right to the end. This is no small feat in the age of short attention spans, and twittering and tweating. If you mention 140 characters to Rowling she’d laugh and say— “yes that’s how many interesting characters had roles in my last novel”. The Cormoran Strike series of detective fiction is now in its third installment, entitled ‘Career... Read more
So I’m flying back from Bellingham Wash. where I was doing some filming, and lo and behold, I’m sitting next to a fellow older Christian and minister named Mark Frontczak. Turns out he is also a Christian cartoonist who told me— ‘grab what you need from my site’ and so I told him I’d take him up on that one since I’m always looking for blog-worthy material. We talked about the off beat humor in one of our favorite cartoonists—... Read more
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