Tag: Father

The claim that a Roman soldier named Pantera was the father of Jesus is not supported by historical evidence or mainstream scholarship. The story appears to be a fringe theory or conspiracy theory with no basis in credible historical sources. The birth of Jesus is a well-known event in Christian ...

Myfather removes the stapled sheets of paper from his back pocket. He points at the kitchen table. It’s his signal to my sister and me to have a seat. “I need ten minutes,” he says. “I have to talk to you about something.” Our minds leap to worst-case scenarios. &...

I was in the dressing room with the rest of my class. We had just finished rehearsal for a play. I was in eighth grade and this was drama class. That day I was getting my stuff ready in the dressing room. I knew my dad was picking me up that day. I was hoping that he had our dog with him too. See...

I’m alive. Still. I know we never met but here I am. Yes. I am here. I am woman. I have birthed the future over and over. And now I am wilderness. So, before I become the forest floor and a future generation of lichen and fungi to feed the dreamer I figured it is time, now, to say hello. I ...

A man like a dream: At 6’ 4’’ and 170 lbs, with blue eyes and a genius IQ of 160, donor #9623 seems like a perfect candidate to start a family. He describes himself as a lookalike of Jim Carey, Brandon Lee, and Tom Cruise. The man is unusually athletic, optimistic, a devoted Christ...

Back in November 2001, a twelve-year-old girl, Amanda Cope, was found brutally murdered and raped in her own home, in South Carolina. Her father, Billy Wayne Cope, found her dead body in her room and called 911. He would later confess to the crime, not once but three times. However, the story was no...

When my father died, a metaphorical train hit me. My world, the world stood still. It ceased to be. People were frozen in time. He had been sick with cancer. It ravaged his body like a plague of locusts. It ate him from the inside out. The sun was shining that day, and the view from the window wa...

You are the 5 people you surround yourself with. Following this philosophy, if you want to become a millionaire, you want to surround yourself with millionaires. Then one day it struck me, I AM surrounded with one, my father. My father is a self-made millionaire. He grew up poo...