Jesus Camp follows several young children in the Evangelical church as well as Becky Fischer, pastor and camp leader. Kids, and it seems, families attend a summer camp where the kids will get their daily dose of evangelical Christianity. Through interviews with Fischer, the children, specifically Rachel, Tory and others, Jesus Camp illustrates the un-nerving and scary beliefs, teachings and
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The
With a run time close to three hours, The Good Shepherd doesn’t win any awards from me. Watching it last night was a test of my patience. Either I just didn’t get it, they didn’t tell the story clearly enough, or, perhaps it was all those code words the agents were using. I didn’t get the translation manual. There were
Ypsilanti High School’s Drama students will represent the United States at the August 2007 Fringe Festival, the world’s largest performing arts festival, in Edinburgh, Scotland. YHS Drama is the only Michigan high school, and one of only 40 in the US invited to perfom with the American High School Theatre Festival at the Fringe. This evening there was a fund
Hudson Mills Metropark just north of Dexter is full of Russian Olives. They are prolific on the disc golf course and I have a love/hate relationship with them. On occasion, my disc ends up behind a Russian Olive. These big unwieldy bushes are just hard to throw around or over. The are especially my nemesis on the 600+ foot hole
The Triennial National Iyengar Yoga Convention was held in one of the most non-yogaesque places in the country, Las Vegas, the first weekend of May. Almost 900 yogis and yoginis attended the general convention at Alexis Park Resort and Villas, a mile east of the Vegas strip. The theme of the convention was The Journey: From Body to Bliss. The
Bobby Dixon served in Iraq for only three months before his life was taken by an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) this month. My partner, Daniel, and his daughter, Anathea, were close to Bobby and deeply mourn his loss. The service this week was painful, sad, and aggravating. Even though Bobby was personally unknown to me, I felt a sense of
The weekend of April 20-22 I participated in the Hocking Hills Photo Contest. Friends of Hocking Hills, a state park in Ohio, sponsors the event. The money the contest raises goes back into the park, specifically for photographers. Last year a photo blind and Rose Lake near the campground was completed. This is the second year I participated in the
The league opener for A3DISC was Wednesday at Hudson Mills. It was a cool, dreary day. It had rained all day and I suspected I wouldn’t play … I’m a fair weather golfer. The rain moved on and Craig, Kevin, (my Bay City buddies) and I shot a round. Kevin was two under, Craig, two over and I was 11
A couple of weeks ago I dropped from a headstand into a backbend (see photos below). Now, that’s a pose I didn’t think was possible with this body in my lifetime. I was just tickled, proud, and inspired to do it over and over again. Since I learned that I can do it, I’ve done it several times on my