Podcast appearances and mentions of Lloyd C Douglas

This February during Black History Month I've been writing about the discovery, history, and my subsequent impressions of a scrapbook featuring the life and career of a mid-20th Century Afro-American musician and singer Lawrence "Hank" Hazlett who played with a swing Jazz quartet The Cats and the Fiddle from Chicago and then with his own Hank Hazlett Trio out of Minneapolis.  In the scrapbook this creased and folded sheet of 6 numbered inspirational quotes was pasted on a page. They must have been meaningful to him, so I composed some music and read the quotes as a spoken word with music piece this month. The quotes are from (in order) M. B. Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Lloyd C. Douglas, Helen Keller, Herbert Kaufman, and Ambrose Bierce. The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our experiences with the pieces at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.  The book is in the public domain

In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.  The book is in the public domain.

In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.  The book is in the public domain.

In 2021 I planned to share White Banners as an audiobook. I only posted one chapter but it is one of my most listened to episodes. I am reposting it now and intending to include the whole book. In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.  The book is in the public domain

In 2021 I planned to share White Banners as an audiobook. I only posted one chapter but it is one of my most listened to episodes. I am reposting it now and intending to include the whole book. In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.  The book is in the public domain

In 2021 I planned to share White Banners as an audiobook. I only posted one chapter but it is one of my most listened to episodes. I am reposting it now and intending to include the whole book. In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.  The book is in the public domain

My Sin (1924) + Arpege (1927) by Lanvin + Vent Vert by Balmain (1947) + White Shoulders by Evyan (1943) + Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas (1929) + Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams (1944) + Imitation of Life by Fannie Hurst (1933) + Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1954) + All That Heaven Allows (1955) + Imitation of Life (1959) + John M. Stahl's Imitation of Life (1934) + Leave Her to Heaven (1945) + John Waters' Polyester (1981) + Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven (2002)  with Kylie White 3/27/23, 4/25/24, 9/16/24 S5E30, S6E32, S6E70 9/16/24 S6E71 To hear this episode and the complete continuing story of The Perfume Nationalist please subscribe on Patreon. 

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

After acquiring Christ's Robe, Marcellus then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's garment — a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Follow along w/ Frank and special guest, Steven Jonathan ( https://cityoftruth.co/ ). Feel free to read and contribute to the official threads for The Robe: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/3fpfpm8c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/tpxjdx8v Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/z9zza5pt Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/2xmn6xpu Session Five: https://tinyurl.com/ye27cyar Session Six: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhespu Session Seven (Finale): https://tinyurl.com/5kca7y3v If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

In which the Mister and I check out MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954), from director Douglas Sirk and from Lloyd C. Douglas' novel of the same name.  There was a 1935 film which shared screenplay credits to Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman and Finley Peter Dunne.  This 1954 version also has a screenplay credit to Robert Blees and an adaptation credit to Wells Root.  In this version, Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson) is a spoiled rich young man who's carelessness leads to an accident that takes resources away from someone else who dies.  While recovering, Bob meets Helen (Jane Wyman), who at first is unaware that she is the dead man's widow but soon falls in love with her.  In his earnestness, he causes an accident that takes away her sight.  Now completely remorseful, Bob tries to follow in Dr. Phillips' example to be righteous and virtuous.  The film clocks in at 1 h 48 m and is not rated on IMDB.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jokagoge/support

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features the highest-grossing film at the box office, Biblical epic The Robe. Directed by Henry Koster, based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas and starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons and Michael Rennie, The Robe was the first movie released in CinemaScope. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Abel Green in Variety, Richard L. Coe in the Washington Post, and Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/17/archives/the-screen-the-rose-shown-in-cemascope-movie-based-on-douglas-novel.html). Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show. Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @Awesomemoviepod You can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedy You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed You can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod. You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen. Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1953 installment, featuring our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire.

Day 205 Today's Reading: Hebrews 1 At Trafalgar Square in London stands the 170-foot-high iconic Lord Nelson column. Resting on top of the pillar is Lord Nelson. It towers way too high for a passerby to distinguish his features and really know who it is. So about forty years ago a new statue, an exact replica of the original that is on top, was erected at eye level so everyone could see Lord Nelson way up there. Someone had the idea that if you want to know who is “way up there,” we have to bring the exact representation down low enough for everyone to see. This also happened about two thousand years ago in a very big way. God transcends our ability to see Him for who He is. The eyes of our understanding cannot define or figure out His divine features. So God pulled a Lord Nelson for us. He set before us an exact representation, “the image of the invisible God.” Now to know God, we must only look at Jesus. Here's what the writer of Hebrews tells us: “In these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. God made his Son responsible for everything. His Son is the one through whom God made the universe. His Son is the reflection of God's glory and the exact likeness of God's being. He holds everything together through his powerful words. After he had cleansed people from their sins, he now holds the honored position—the one next to the majestic God [the Father] on the heavenly throne.” (Hebrews 1:2-3, GW) We live in a highly religious society today. I don't think America is godless; I think America has many gods. The issue is, what does America's god look like? One of the first things God did when He gave the Ten Commandments was to issue a warning from the very beginning about counterfeit gods. The Bible says this in Exodus 20 in the first commandment: “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.” (Exodus 20:3-5) Here is what stands out—that God gave the commandment against other gods not to pagans and idolaters but to Israel, the very people of God, a monotheistic people. Being religious never guarantees the worship of the true God. This was what we remember as we enter the book of Hebrews. Hebrews was written to religious people who were losing sight of Jesus. They were losing sight of the exact representation and likeness of God seen only in Jesus. And the book reminds them that God is in Jesus. Divine truth must come from outside to us. It cannot be self-generated by us and come from within ourselves. Truth must be revealed by God to us. Without Jesus we come up with our own version of God; thus the thousands of religions in the world who have self-defined God instead of letting God define Himself in Jesus. As Colossians 1:15 says, “We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen” (MSG). God is fully revealed in Jesus. That's why any religion that doesn't give Jesus the honor that God gets is counterfeit. Jesus tells us, “The Son will be honored equally with the Father. Anyone who dishonors the Son, dishonors the Father, for it was the Father's decision to put the Son in the place of honor” (John 5:23, MSG). The Son is equally honored with the Father, because the Son is God in the flesh. There are only two approaches to knowing God: one that begins with humans or the one that begins with God. Jesus is God's self-revelation. We know God only through Jesus. Lloyd C. Douglas was the author of the classic book, The Robe. He lived in a boarding house when he was a university student. He tells the story that when he lived on the first floor, he resided next to a retired music teacher, wheelchair bound and unable to leave his apartment. Every morning they had a ritual: Douglas came down the stairs, opened the man's door, and asked, “Well, what's the good news?” The other picked up his tuning fork, tapped it on the inside of his wheelchair, and said, “That is middle C! It was middle C yesterday, and it will be middle tomorrow. It will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat, the piano across the hall is out of tune, but my friend, that is middle C.” Says Donald McCullough of the story: “The old man had discovered a constant reality on which he could depend, an unchanging truth to which he could cling. Jesus Christ is our tuning fork, ringing out middle C in a cacophonous world of competing truths; his pitch defines tonal reality and sets every other note in its proper place.” Society may be flat. The church may be sharp. But as McCullough reminds us, “When we listen to middle C two things happen: the revelation of Jesus Christ both separates us from God and unites us to God.” Astronomers observe stars with telescopes. Biologists examine cells with microscopes. Sociologists discover patterns of human behavior with surveys and interviews. Psychiatrists delve into the mind through conversation. Humanity can know God by the life and words of Jesus Christ. When we grasp the hand of Jesus, we meet God in Person.

We start off 1939 with a bang with two Paramount movies that gave us a lot to discuss. First, Cafe Society (directed by Edward H. Griffith), the first of several pairings of Fred MacMurray with early Hitchcock blonde Madeleine Carroll, with an original screenplay by future Columbia Pictures producer Virginia Van Upp, takes the screwball (for the most part) out of class-conscious 30s romantic comedy, replacing it with a high degree of sexual tension and, especially, an unusual focus on the moral growth of the heroine. We discuss the textual evidence of female auteurship and note certain similarities with Dorothy Arzner's The Wild Party (discussed in our Clara Bow series). Next, we explain why Frank Borzage's Disputed Passage, based on the Lloyd C. Douglas novel, is really a superhero movie, in what sense it is and isn't a soap opera, and how it's not about the proper way to be a doctor but rather about the proper way to lead the religious life. And in our returning (again) Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we revisit the great I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) and its subtextual subject matter of the corruption and perversion of the South by slavery, as a particular instance of the human tendency to find opportunities to create systems of cruelty.    Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:     CAFE SOCIETY [dir. Edward H. Griffith] 0h 37m 19s:    DISPUTED PASSAGE [dir: Frank Borzage] 1h 13m 45s:    Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (revisited)        Studio Film Capsules provided The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler                                     +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com  

For Douglas Sirk's adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas's "liberal Christianity x pop psychology" novel the director makes the right choice to instead just remake the earlier 1935 John M. Stahl directed adaptation, which Criterion helpfully provides as a bonus feature on this release. While the 1935 version tries to show the absurdity of the melodrama with a slapstick-y comedy style, Sirk just ratchets up the melodrama to even more absurd levels. 

For Douglas Sirk's adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas's "liberal Christianity x pop psychology" novel the director makes the right choice to instead just remake the earlier 1935 John M. Stahl directed adaptation, which Criterion helpfully provides as a bonus feature on this release. While the 1935 version tries to show the absurdity of the melodrama with a slapstick-y comedy style, Sirk just ratchets up the melodrama to even more absurd levels. 

In 1936 Lloyd C. Douglas used the story of a family who gets invaded by a housekeeper possessed of a peculiar idea to present a philosophy of life which has challenged me in many ways. Lloyd Douglas has had an enormous impact on my life and so I wanted to share this novel of his for my listeners.

This 1942 historical novel about a young Roman soldier who cast the winning dice for Christ's robe at the Crucifixion was an instant classic. It rapidly rose to the No. 1 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list where it remained for over a year! One of the most popular book of the 1940s, it inspired a film adaptation in 1953. You can pick up a copy here: Amazon.

There is a forgotten figure in the Crucifixion-Resurrection drama. A remarkable man who came to a most-remarkable conclusion. As you will hear in this PODCAST, I am referring to the Roman officer who actually crucified Jesus. At the conclusion of the crucifixion, this Roman officer -- who had literally just killed Christ -- made this stunning statement: “This man truly was the Son of God!” Now, I have to ask the questions: How in the world did he come to this conclusion? This Roman? This executioner? This worshipper of many gods? This witness to, and participant in, more crucifixions than he could count? What was it about this crucifixion that set it apart from all the others over which he, as a commander of 100 elite Roman troops, presided? What pushed him over the line from a polytheist to a monotheist? A worshiper of Caesar as god into a worshiper of Jesus as God? And what was it exactly that convinced him beyond the shadow of any doubt that the man he had just executed was in fact Almighty God? I am profoundly grateful to professors Schmidt, Vanderlaan, Gundry, along with author Lloyd C. Douglas who wrote a wonderfully insightful historical novel, The Robe, for gently nudging my thinking in the direction to ask and now answer these intriguing questions. Questions about what-in-the-world convinced this Roman Officer to conclude that the man he just crucified was not just a god, but as he exclaimed, “This man truly was the Son of God!” What did he see that we, not being Roman, might miss? In order to answer these questions, I need to take you on a little trip, back in time many centuries, and to the East many thousands of miles, to Rome itself. There, we will attend the grandest, gaudiest, and most glorious of spectacular events. All to answer the question, What caused this elite Roman military officer to conclude that the man he just executed was indeed “the Son of God”? Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

This week, I have been reading a fascinating book of historical fiction entitled, The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas. As you will hear in this PODCAST, in the book Douglas records a conversation between Marcellus, son of a Roman Senator who has fallen out of favor with Emperor Tiberias, and Marcellus’ slave, Demetrius. The conversation goes like this: 'Demetrius'—Marcellus swept the sky with an all-inclusive arm—'do you ever believe in the gods?' 'If it is my master's wish, I do,' replied Demetrius, perfunctorily. 'No, no,' said Marcellus, testily, 'be honest. Never mind what I believe. Tell me what you think about the gods. Do you ever pray to them?' 'When I was a small boy, sir,' complied Demetrius, 'my mother taught us to invoke the gods. She was quite religious. There was a pretty statue of Priapus in our flower garden. I can still remember my mother kneeling there, on a fine spring day, with a little trowel in one hand and a basket of plants in the other. She believed that Priapus made things grow.... And my mother prayed to Athene every morning when my brothers and I followed the teacher into our schoolroom.' He was silent for a while; and then, prodded by an encouraging nod from Marcellus, he continued: 'My father offered libations to the gods on their feast-days, but I think that was to please my mother.' 'This is most interesting—and touching, too,' observed Marcellus. 'But you haven't quite answered my question, Demetrius. Do you believe in the gods—now?' 'No, sir.' 'Do you mean that you don't believe they render any service to men? Or do you doubt that the gods exist, at all?' 'I think it better for the mind, sir, to disbelieve in their existence. The last time I prayed—it was on the day that our home was broken up. As my father was led away in chains, I knelt by my mother and we prayed to Zeus—the Father of gods and men—to protect his life. But Zeus either did not hear us; or, hearing us, had no power to aid us; or, having power to aid us, refused to do so. It is better, I think, to believe that he did not hear us than to believe that he was unable or unwilling to give aid. ... That afternoon my mother went away—upon her own invitation—because she could bear no more sorrow.... I have not prayed to the gods since that day, sir. I have cursed and reviled them, on occasions; but with very little hope that they might resent my blasphemies. Cursing the gods is foolish and futile, I think.' Well, you could reason, of course Zeus did not hear Demetrius’ prayers. There was no Zeus to hear him. And of course, you could also argue, there was no answer to his prayer because there was no Zeus who promised Demetrius what Jesus promised to us: "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." Yet, how many of us have had a crisis of faith equal to that of Demetrius precisely because we prayed to our God in a time of crisis, in Jesus’ name, the same Jesus who did indeed make to us this promise: "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened…" ...and yet, nothing happened. What exactly did Jesus mean by those words, His prayer promise to us? Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

"Disputed Passage" (Lloyd C. Douglas) is what this podcast is not. There are any number of issues to talk about, yet so many are so particular, and rally around themselves all kinds of differing opinions. I'd rather do -- that is, try to do in a small way -- something of what Claude Berri actually did in "Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring" (1986), which was, in his own words, to scrape down to the universal: our human nature and suffering, in common -- the tie that binds. After this cast, I am taking a short break. But it's really just "pre-production" time, for the next season of, "Fireball XL 5".

ENCORE THEATER was a 1946 Summer replacement series, sponsored by Schenley Labs, Inc. All shows had a medical theme, some concerned medical research, some covered personal stories of people in the medical field but all based on true stories. Schenley Labs, Inc. was the sponsor for the series. The shows aired Tuesday evenings from 9:30 to 10:00 PM over CBS affiliated stations. Members of the cast were typically well-known radio or screen actors, such as Lurene Tuttle, Eric Snowden, Gerald Mohr, Ronald Colman, Robert Young or Lionel Barrymore. Producer for series was Bill Lawrence, who also directed the series. The announcer was Frank Graham. Music was by Leith Stevens. Scripts were written and adapted by Jean Holloway, Lloyd C. Douglas, Sidney Kingsley and Milton Geiger. Twelve of the thirteen scripts were adapted by Jean Holloway. The 1946 Summer series ended with the August 27th show, replaced by "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players" (possibly known as "The Hollywood Players Company". There was a second ENCORE THEATER Summer series in 1949, however there is little information on it. It aired on Sundays. Eight shows are known to be in circulation. Known air dates are April 17, April 24, May 8 and June 5.

ENCORE THEATER was a 1946 Summer replacement series, sponsored by Schenley Labs, Inc. All shows had a medical theme, some concerned medical research, some covered personal stories of people in the medical field but all based on true stories. Schenley Labs, Inc. was the sponsor for the series. The shows aired Tuesday evenings from 9:30 to 10:00 PM over CBS affiliated stations. Members of the cast were typically well-known radio or screen actors, such as Lurene Tuttle, Eric Snowden, Gerald Mohr, Ronald Colman, Robert Young or Lionel Barrymore. Producer for series was Bill Lawrence, who also directed the series. The announcer was Frank Graham. Music was by Leith Stevens. Scripts were written and adapted by Jean Holloway, Lloyd C. Douglas, Sidney Kingsley and Milton Geiger. Twelve of the thirteen scripts were adapted by Jean Holloway. The 1946 Summer series ended with the August 27th show, replaced by "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players" (possibly known as "The Hollywood Players Company". There was a second ENCORE THEATER Summer series in 1949, however there is little information on it. It aired on Sundays. Eight shows are known to be in circulation. Known air dates are April 17, April 24, May 8 and June 5.