by Mike Parnell | Apr 15, 2004 | Opinion
Some children grow up with imaginary friends as part of the process of psychosocial development. But Frankie Maxon is different. She grew up with a personal god. “My Faith in Frankie” is a four-issue comics series by Vertigo Comics that looks at...
by Mike Parnell | Apr 13, 2004 | Opinion
Joel and Ethan Coen make iconoclastic movies. Theirs is a strange world inhabited by Bikers from Hell, dumb kids who become executives, and erudite convicts on mythic journeys. “The Ladykillers” is a remake of a classic British comedy about a group of...
by Mike Parnell | Mar 31, 2004 | Opinion
Tony Campolo once said that parents’ greatest desire is that their children be happy. Our culture is obsessed with wanting to be happy, and much of our unhappiness could be attributed to our bad experiences in relationships. Those that end abruptly seem to...
by Mike Parnell | Mar 30, 2004 | Opinion
In I Corinthians 13, Paul makes this statement: “We don’t see things clearly. We are squinting in a fog, peering through a mist.” It seems that no matter how sure we are, there are times in which the vision of God becomes like finding a needle in a...
by Mike Parnell | Mar 10, 2004 | Opinion
If you were a male who grew up in the late 1970s, you probably wanted to drive either a red Grand Torino or an orange Dodge Charger. Hollywood has yet to make a movie version of “The Dukes of Hazzard,” so those who want to see the General Lee in action...
