“The thing is, Narnia isn't a game” for the children, said Georgie Henley, the 12-year-old actress who plays Lucy [in the Walden/Disney film series The Chronicles of Narnia]. “It's a real world. Although Aslan fades for a while, when he comes back he's stronger than ever and he's bigger than ever. I love that saying, you know: ‘As long as you grow, so shall I.’” Quoted in Terry Mattingly’s column.
Check out David Tobey trying to match Kobe Bryant’s leap over an Astin Martin. David launched our Upward program at Hillcrest years ago and now serves as a minister at Crestview/Phoenix Church here in Austin.
"A seeker of truth has to go where the truth can be found, and to go on until it is found, and both the atheist and the agnostic are early quitters." ("The Skeptical Inquirer: If Only Atheists Were the Skeptics They Think They Are" by Edward Tingley)
Read about how the TBM organization (Texas Baptist Men) is training Burmese Christians in Thailand to respond to the recent cyclone in Myanmar. To support TBM disaster relief efforts, click here.
On a Wing and a Prayer: "When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field — coming to rest right next to a sign reading, 'Jesus is Lord.'" (story)
“Math is Hard!” Mollie at GetReligion pokes fun at the LA Times math skills. Fifty-four percent of Californians oppose legalizing same-sex marriage to 35% in favor, but in what can only be called advocacy for gay marriage instead of just reporting the facts, the LA Times reports this 19-point gap under headlines like “Californians slimly reject gay marriage,” “Californians reject gay marriage by a bit,” and “Californians narrowly reject gay marriage.” She adds an update here about the difference between opinion polls and actual voting.
“Bob Williamson fled a broken home in Mississippi at age 17 to hitchhike around the country. He landed in Atlanta in 1970 at 24, homeless, broke, and addicted to heroin and methamphetamine. When he got a job there cleaning bricks for $15 a week, no one would have guessed that he would start a $26 million software company someday.” (“From Junkie to Software Success” in BusinessWeek)
L’Chaim! In 1965 47-year-old Francois Raffray made a deal with then 90-year-old Jeanne Calment. He agreed to pay her $500 a month for the rest of her life in exchange for her condo when she died. He paid her that sum for the next 30 years until he died at age 77 in 1995. In all Francois paid more than three times the market value for the condo. She died two years later at age 122, the longest living person in modern history.
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