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An up-to-the-minute techno-thriller that works

Whenever movies use current technology, the cyber-activities onscreen always look silly five years later. That’ll probably happen with Searching, but that doesn’t matter much now since it’s one of the

Pondering muscial Queens and Kings

Ireally liked Aretha Franklin. When a drunk driver hit the Bride and me as we came back from an Azle playoff basketball game on Feb. 27, 2004, our truck was

First 10 minutes are the hardest

It mocks me from the corner of the back porch where it has loitered menacingly for more than five years. I can’t get to my yard or my workshop (a

Texas political leaders want Canada included in new trade agreement

The White House last week announced a preliminary new trade agreement had been secured between the United States and Mexico. While details of the pact are forthcoming, the White House

Focus on loving ‘because’

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Aug. 11 I went to my first training to be a Kairos Prison minister.

Kairos is a program for men and women who are incarcerated to know that they are loved by God.

I’m the youngest person at the training by at least 30 years.

There were different exercises that we participated in and all of them had to do with opening ourselves to be vulnerable.

I don’t know about you, but it is very difficult for me to be vulnerable to people I just met for the first time.

Stop a minute!

LIFE MATTERS

Preferences.

We all have them. And we prefer circumstances in which they are acknowledged…rather, honored…OK, really fulfilled…how about, delivered upon a silver platter by a smiling servant?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with our having preferences. In fact, our preferences flow out of our God-given, unique design – personality, abilities, giftedness, passions.

Combine that God-given design with life-shaping experiences, and we can develop some strong personal preferences.

Still not a bad thing.

A Bible story you likely don’t know

ON YOUR MARK

I have attended church for decades, and I’ve heard and read a zillion stories from the Good Book.

Tales of hope and redemption and war and horror and miracles and tragedy and love and just about every other topic you can imagine presented in allegory, poetry, imagery, onomatopoeia, parables, symbolism, and straightforward story-telling.

With such a wide array of tales told in a plethora of literary devices, it’s no wonder that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time.

Crazy Rich Asians is a traditional rom-com

Stay with the Movie Man here – we’re headed in a couple of directions here. ABOUT THE FILM Crazy Rich Asians was a much bigger hit than box office prognosticators

Pulling back the mysterious journalism curtain

We here in the journalism business have pondered a recent survey that noted that readers sometimes have a hard time discerning exactly what “news” is – and what it isn’t

Indeed: Time marches on

Old age is not for sissies.” I realize that “sissies” is probably not a politically correct word (is there such a thing?), but I’m quoting Bette Davis, not composing an