Envy Apartment

The following testimony from JD Hall regarding a recent visit to Jim Bakker’s studio and Morningside Ministries was sent to Pulpit & Pen for publishing. While on a working vacation in Branson, Missouri on August 2 – just prior to my debate on Cessationism and Charismaticism in Cleveland the following weekend – I spent time with my extended family on the campus of College of the Ozarks. While there, I planned to visit the television studios and survivalist retreat (for lack of a better word) of Jim Bakker, the disgraced televangelist who had a multi-millionaire fund his ministry come back and who is now hustling survival supplies in the name of Jesus. Prior to leaving on vacation, I planned this visit to Morningside and received permission for what I had expected would happen from my local church leadership , lest anyone think I am a completely crazy man who had gone rogue or something like that. My leadership gave me the okay to do what I, indeed, ended up doing. First, a few th...

Joel Hopkin's latest film, based on a true story, meanders along with a mildly pleasant mediocrity . A scene from Hampstead, 2017 Hampstead, 2017 Starring: Diane Keaton, Brendon Gleeson, James Norton, Lesley Manville Directed by Joel Hopkins  Running time: 103 minutes (PG) One lone man daring to interfere with the evil plans of the rich and powerful: it’s not exactly a new angle, but there are a few scraps of satisfaction to be found in Joel Hopkin’s latest film,  Hampstead  – just not in the realm of originality. It’s a sleepy story that meanders along with a mildly pleasant mediocrity . If you felt like switching your brain off and staring at the beautiful British countryside , this could be worth a view.  In the latest performance from acclaimed actors Diane Keaton (playing Emily) and Brendan Gleeson ( playing Donald ), we learn about hermit Harry Hallowes – a real person who in 2007 won squatter’s rights to the land he’d been self-sufficiently living on in London’s upmark...