Strength!
Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon character created by King Features in 1919. His strip continues to run today, reprints of earlier stories. Paramount Pictures took up the persona of this tough-talking pipe-smoking marine and created many shorts in the 30s to the 50s. Now owned by Warner Bros., you can still see them here and there. There was even a 1980 live-action film starring Robin Williams as Popeye.
Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz, declared:
I think Popeye was a perfect
Stowaway!
Themba Cabeka, 30, was tired of his life in South Africa—the poverty, depression, crime. And so was his buddy Carlito Vale. So they took an unusual step. As stowaways in a 747’s wheel well!
How they got into the secure area where planes are parked no one has figured out. But they did. And into the British Airways jumbo’s undercarriage they went. And stayed. For the entirety of the 11-hour flight from Johannesburg to London’s Heathrow. All 5,600 miles of it. At –60°C
Nature!
After a year of viruses, shut-ins, lockdowns, WFH, etc., many have become TV binge watchers. There’s nothing else to do, they complain, bored and depressed.
Well, there might be a cure for this boredom and depression … on TV! Yup, you can sit on your couch and remote-click away your tedium, languor, and ennui.
Or so claim researchers from University of Exeter and University of Vienna, in “What Is the Best Way of Delivering Virtual Nature for Improving Mood?” published
Direction?
These days it is hard to get lost. What with GPS devices everywhere, even on our phones, we can bravely go where no one has ever gone before. Well, almost!
But wait! We had GPS before GPS was a thing.
So say scientists at the University of Durham, U. K., in “Vector Trace Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation,” published recently in Nature Neuroscience.
There are, apparently, cells in a part of the brain that actually function like a GPS. Our current gang
Ephesians 3:1–11
Paul’s divinely empowered role in the administration of God’s plan forms a paradigm for the ministry of all believers, as God is made known to the cosmos through the church.
Paul begins in Ephesians 3:1 intending to utter an intercessory prayer but breaks off immediately, to resume in 3:14, where he repeats his opening phrase, “For this reason ….” The seeming digression of 3:2–13 describes the stewardship entrusted to Paul by God’s grace—the apostle’s
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.