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An Ohio minister and former football coach is planning to sue the NFL over its racy Super Bowl halftime show. Dave Daubenmire claims Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s “soft-porn performance” may prevent him from “getting into the Kingdom of Heaven.” The Week, February 21, 2020 p.6 https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/ohio-minister-dragged-for-threatening-to-sue-nfl-over-shakira-jennifer-lopez-halftime-show…

Leonard Durkin was suffering from heart failure. The Englishman was a huge Burger King fan and told his kin he wanted them to bury him with his usual order. He got his dying wish. On leaving the funeral the hearse carrying his corpse stopped at a Burger King drive-through, and a double bacon cheeseburger…

An Arizona woman, Tina Hines went into cardiac arrest and appeared close to death. Her heart had to be restarted with a defibrillator five times. When she finally regained consciousness she asked for a pen and a piece of paper and wrote, “It’s real.” As she wrote she began pointing upward with tears…

Ben Bender is 93-years-old and has been playing golf for 65 years. At one point he got pretty good, as low as a 3-handicap. While playing his last round, he was on the third hole, when did something he had never done before. He made a hole-in-one. It was a crowning achievement. He played a few more holes…

Bill Gates is considered the richest man in the world, with an estimated wealth of 76$ billion. In 2000, he founded a foundation ranked as one of the most generous in the world, and he has since stepped down from his position as chairman of Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. When Gates was asked about…

On July 14, 2011, Yauheni Shchytou took a plane from Minsk, Belarus, Russia to Milan, Italy, then to JFK in New York and expected to reach Seattle, Washington. The trip went well and the plane reached New York on time. After a brief layover, he found the gate to board the next plane. Shchytou, though…

A postcard sent to two sisters in Elmira, New York arrived at the right address, but ended up in the hands of another family because it arrived nearly 70 years after it was sent. The card was sent in July, 1943 from Illinois. It was sent to Pauline and Theresa Leisenring by their parents who were visiting…

Eban Alexander was just another neurosurgeon until bacterial meningitis put him in a coma. While in the hospital, Alexander was whisked to an otherworld of pink clouds, transparent angel-like beings, and lots of butterflies. Alexander is certain he encountered the divine and has written a book , Proof…

There is no doubt that identity theft is on the rise, and the collecting and selling of personal information, and fake ID’s is now big business. There seems to be a huge market for fake ID’s especially, and not always for illegal immigrants wishing to commit immigration fraud. Seems it might also be…

Three Zen Buddhist monks stopped on their journey to rest. One of the monks saw a flag and said, "Oh, What a strong wind blowing!” The second monk argued that it was not the wind blowing but the flag flying. The third monk contended that neither the wind was blowing nor the flag flying, but their minds…

In India, more than 1,000 travelers boarded a train headed for Varanasi. After they had traveled the necessary 600 miles, they realized they were in Warangal instead. They had traveled 600 miles in the wrong direction and were so far from their original destination they were even in the wrong region.…

MISTAKES Three Englishmen decided to sail across the English Channel on their 7-foot dinghy. After an 11-hour struggle they were “rescued” from their adventure. They thought they had reached France. Actually, they were only two miles from where they had started. --The Week, May 13, 2011 p. 6 Illustration…

A new study from Europe has confirmed the stereotype that men hate asking for directions. Research conducted the Swinton Company found that 83 percent of male drivers ignored the advice from their satellite navigation systems on a regular basis. Less than 75 percent of women reported that they choose…

TRUTH In their book, Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith: An Evangelism Crash Course, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort write, “Studies indicate that 75 percent of American college professors currently teach that there is no such thing as right and wrong.' Rather, they treat the questions of good and evil…

Nathan Thornburgh was a staff journalist at Time magazine when he felt he was missing something in his life. He quit his job to be a full time father to his two children. Fulfillment still avoided Nathan and he began to check out the self-fulfillment path. Attending a self-fulfillment seminar, The Landmark…

The refusal of people to make distinctions is leaving room for religions that really are not religions at all. The British Government recently decided that some “self-proclaimed Druids—a ‘bunch of eccentrics’ who like to dress up in robes and prance around Stonehenge, chanting at the sun—belong to a…

The ACLU is suing a North Carolina high school that suspended a student for having a nose ring. “Ariana Lacono, 14, says she and her mother belong to the Church of Body Modification.” Her lawsuit contends, “She should be able to attend public school without being forced to renounce her family’s religious…

Nearly one hundred years ago, a well-known physicist envisioned a modern invention, and predicted the device would usher in a new era of technology. Speaking at a recent meeting, Seth Porges, technology editor for Popular Mechanics magazine revealed that Serbian born physicist Nicola Tesla predicted…

Less than half of Christians in the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country believe Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation, a new survey reveals. The latest "Religious and Demographic Profile of Presbyterians" report, released by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), shows that two in five (39…

Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion "as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity," according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be environmental…

HEAVEN Some people think they can crash any party. Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed the White House state dinner given in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November 2009. The couple bluffed their way through security and even though they had no invitation they hobnobbed with the famous…

Sometimes we can be so earthly minded that we are no heavenly good. There is an old legend of a swan and a crane. A beautiful swan alighted by the banks of the water in which a crane was wading about seeking snails. For a few moments the crane viewed the swan in stupid wonder and then inquired: “Where…

ETERNITY The June 2009 edition of Sky Magazine, the official in flight publication of Delta Airlines, has a section about New York City. In it, they interview famous New Yorkers about their favorite places in the City that never sleeps. A very self-absorbed Donald Trump answers almost every question…

SALVATION A middle-aged couple intended to input Carpi, an Island off the coast of Italy, into their GPS, but instead selected Capri, a town 400 miles away. They didn’t discover their mistake until they asked locals for directions to the Island’s famous “Blue Grotto.” "They were surprised, but not angry,"…