The movie, "All the Money in the World," hit the big screen this past year. It tells of the kidnapping of J.Paul Getty's 16-year-old grandson, John Paul Getty III in 1973, and the refusal of the billionaire industrialist grandfather to pay the ransom cash. While I did not see the movie, I had to read up on the life of J. Paul Getty to get a sense of how a grandfather would not do everything he could to save his grandson. As I read an article about Getty, it became clear to me that he was never going to have everything he wanted- fame, fortune, family. In fact, if you look at his checkered past, he was about one thing- J. Paul Getty. If one were to use a phrase to describe his upbringing, it
One of my favorite all time shows is "The Andy Griffith Show." One could say I watched it "religiously." In fact when I was in seminary we actually had a group chartered by the "Andy Griffith Rerun Watcher's Club." We were the "Andy Griffith Theological Society." And I was proudly named "The Head Goober!" While we laughed hysterically at each episode, we decided it would be fun to develop theological summations with each episode. Then at the end of the school year, we would invite our professors to come and watch an episode with us and test them on their ability to articulate their theological understanding of the episode. There was an episode where "Jimmy the Goat" got loose from being tied
Can anyone identify what line this movie is from? Perhaps this line from the same movie will help, "Show me the money!" If you guessed "Jerry Maguire," you are correct. I can't believe it was over twenty-two years ago that movie came out, but I can still see the exchange between Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s character, Ron Tidwell, and Tom Cruise's character, Jerry Maguire. Tidwell was an up and coming football player who needed an agent. Enter Jerry Maguire. However, the back story was that Maguire was losing all his clients because he was trying to live out what the line in the title of my article says. His mission was to bring back the importance of dealing with people with a more genuine humanity