by Mike Parnell | Jun 29, 2018 | Opinion
Fred Rogers worried at the end of his life if he was a sheep. That worry was grounded in Jesus’ telling of judgment in Matthew 25 where he speaks of the judgment as being the separation of the sheep from the goats. The sheep were the ones who would enter into...
by Mike Parnell | Apr 18, 2013 | Opinion
There are times when a movie becomes something more, something greater than a consumed and quickly forgotten confection. Too often, we do not realize that movies touch something deep within. Watching “42” I confronted this. There was more taking place than...
by Mike Parnell | Mar 14, 2013 | Opinion
If you grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, you watched the yearly airing of “The Wizard of Oz.” You knew all the words to the songs and you had a favorite character. Mine was the Cowardly Lion. I never heard anyone say they liked the Wizard most, but...
by Mike Parnell | Feb 13, 2013 | Opinion
In a former church, I worked two major natural disasters. Both were related to hurricanes. While working in the first, a veteran of that kind of work said something profound: “Disasters are such that if there is something good in people, it will come out. And if...
by Mike Parnell | Jan 28, 2013 | Opinion
A movie that deals with the hunt for Osama bin Laden has a great big elephant sitting in the narrative room. That elephant is torture. We all know it was there in the real world, so what do you do with it in the movie world? In “Zero Dark Thirty,” director...
