As a hospital chaplain, Lee Witting would make a point of asking those who had died and been resuscitated if they remembered experiencing anything on “the other side.” “And about one out of 10, or one out of 12, would have a story,” said Witting, who has been the host of the podcast “NDE Radio”…
Chaplain Says Sharing Near-Death Experience Stories His Way of Doing God’s Work
Film Review: ‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’: Ritchie Makes a Mean and Meaningful Military Movie
R | 2h 3m | War, Drama | April 21, 2023 “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” stars Jake Gyllenhaal as U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley, top-dog of an elite, hunter-destroyer taskforce designed to demolish Taliban weapons outposts. Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim, L) and Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal, front-center) in “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Following an ambush, Afghan…
Painting the Truth
An international painting competition is more than a place for storied artists to win prizes; it’s one where artists can gain valuable insight from their peers, in an atelier-like setting, just like the old masters once did. For artists Haiyan Kong and Paula Wilson, the NTD International Figure Painting Competition was also a place to…
Painting the Truth: On the Road to Mastery at the 5th NTD International Figure Painting Competition
An international painting competition is more than a place for storied artists to win prizes; it’s one where artists can gain valuable insight from their peers, in an atelier-like setting, just like the old masters once did. For artists Haiyan Kong and Paula Wilson, the NTD International Figure Painting Competition was also a place to…
Film Review: ‘Somewhere in Queens’: Ray Romano Achieves Hilarious Near-Perfect Comedy
R | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Coming-of-Age | 21 April 2023 (USA) For nine seasons (1996–2005), former stand-up comedian Ray Romano co-produced, occasionally wrote, and played the title lead in “Everybody Loves Raymond” (“Everybody”), a CBS sitcom that enjoyed mammoth viewership and lukewarm critical response while offering ultrasafe content. From 2009 to 2011, Romano did the same thing on…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Born Free’
PG | 1 h 35 min | Drama, Adventure | 1966 We normally use “it” for animals. not sure we can do that it as it kind of works against his point. You could say that this story about lions is a very human story, because it’s told with traits you’d hardly expect in lion…
Documentary Review: ‘Civilization in the Danger Zone’
April 19, 2023
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“Civilization in the Danger ZoneArts & CultureBrightFilm & TVGloria Z. GreenfieldJames BurnhamVictor Davis Hanson
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NR | 1 h 5 min | Documentary | 2023 Anyone who compulsively engages in self-criticism and only remembers their worst mistakes rather than their greatest accomplishments would probably be diagnosed by psychiatrists with alarmingly severe depression. Young people are being taught to negate America’s founding principles as shown in “Civilization in the Danger Zone.”…
‘Canticle of the Sun’: St. Francis of Assisi and the Art of Praise
The reputation of St. Francis of Assisi as a nature lover often eclipses his identity as a writer in modern culture, and yet he is among the principal figures in Italian literature. In his youth, St. Francis greatly admired the courtly love poetry and lifestyle of the troubadours; in his maturity, Francis embraced the title…
Book Review: ‘The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History’
My grandfather on my mother’s side was a self-taught lawyer. His jurisprudence was practiced in Socorro, New Mexico in the late 1800s. Some of my relatives say that he lobbied for statehood, though that effort didn’t succeed in New Mexico until 1912. It was more than 50 years earlier, in 1860, that another self-taught lawyer…
Profiles in History: Missy LeHand: FDR’s ‘Right Hand Woman’
April 19, 2023
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American EssenceArts & CultureBrightEleanor RooseveltFDRFranklin D RooseveltGreat DepressionHistoryMarguerite LeHandWorld War IWorld War II
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Marguerite “Missy” LeHand (1898–1944) was born to an Irish family in Potsdam, New York. During her childhood the family moved to Massachusetts, settling into the small working-class town of Somerville just outside of Boston. It was here that she contracted rheumatic fever at the age of 15. She was lucky to survive the illness, as…
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