Is this: 1) the lead singer of the band Kansas; 2) an Italian barrista; 3) Pancho Via’s right hand man; 4) a starving seminary student without a razor; 5) a candidate for President from the Green party? Inquiring minds want to know. Read more
Boom or bust West Texas. Been there, done that. Wide open spaces, hard livin’ and ‘Texas tea’ aka oil, the only ticket out of poverty or at least destitution. No this is not another ‘There Will be Blood” type of movie. It’s not really about the oil. It is more of old-fashioned Western, but in a new-fangled way. And like most Westerns, it is a morality play which raises the question of what really is justice. Is it just when... Read more
(This picture, courtesy of the Guardian, is of CKB at the dedication of the lecture hall in his name in the new Bryson building at Durham University, in 2007. It is one of the last pictures of him in public before he died in 2011). I am proud to say, I knew Charles Kingsley Barrett pretty well for half my life, for 34 years from 1977-2011. I have of late been working on transcribing his sermons, some of which I... Read more
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
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