A reader contacted me about an account that was told to him. The Denver International Airport has been the source of various strange events since it was built."Hi, Lon. This is a 3rd hand account. I was not there, I did not know the person who had this experience. I've no proof, I've never been to the area. But when my co-worker told me of this account she was physically shaken while telling me. My health is changing and I want to get my experiences out there so someone may find use for them.I was told this about 1991. I was the Charge RN of an AIDS/HIV 55-bed inpatient unit. One of our nurses had moved to town from Denver, Colorado, and was employed at our facility. Over time we became friends and talked about our lives. I could tell she wanted to tell me something for a long time but never pushed her. I let her open up when she was ready.I had no interest in UFOs at all but working in this facility we all had spirit encounters. The building we were in was an old nursing home, so speaking of things we saw there was common with all of the staff. She told me what had happened to her boyfriend in Denver one day, and again and again over time, she was so disturbed about it.He did some type of construction work. At the time, this would have been the late 1980s, and he was working in the lower levels where the Denver Airport would have been at the time. One night he came home shaken and told her he got in big trouble at work. He was working in his section which he was not allowed to roam around but had designated areas he could only be in and there was security around to make sure. That day security was lax and he wandered down some hallways finding other hallways that were huge, wide, and tall. The doors in the hallway were very tall, unusually tall with high door handles, and were difficult to open. One door was slightly open and he went in. It was a restroom.Rows of stalls like any restroom except the toilets were 6 feet tall. White porcelain like a regular toilet but massive in size, he could not see the top of the toilet. Across from the stalls was a table, he had to get against the opposite wall to see what was on it, there were large faucets and handles, there was a washing sink, no mirror on the wall.Security suddenly came in and grabbed him, taking him back to his designated area and lecturing him that he knew he was not to leave his area. That night he told his girlfriend what had happened and he was fearful he was in trouble. Who would need such huge toilets? The next day they both left for work, at night she came home and he was not there yet. She never saw him again. His keys, dog, clothing, and everything were still at the apartment but he and his Jeep were missing. Later the Jeep would be found abandoned out of town. He was never found, his family never heard from him, and there seemed to be little investigation into his disappearance. She waited at the apartment for a year hoping he'd return, but no one heard a word from him.She moved and still never heard a word, and neither did any of his family. She would tell me this story again and again, very upset and scared. She later moved off and I lost track of her but never forgot her account and how she'd get so upset telling this story to me. Years later I heard rumors of things going on under the Denver Airport. Who knows what's going on and who would use 6-foot toilets?" TNOTE: I have posted these accounts previously:Experiencer Reported REPTILIAN Encounter in Denver International Airport Strange Places: The Denver International Airport **********MOTHMAN COMMUNION - CONTACT BEFORE DISASTER! | Join Us - LIVE CHAT - Q & A (REMARKABLE ENCOUNTER!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Angel Studios recently released the new film "Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin." Having taught Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s thought in classes in the past and having read from his "Letters and Papers in Prison" at my sister’s wedding and other public events, I was excited about Bonhoeffer’s entry into theaters. The film’s trailer was extremely well-done, so I did what I could to post it on social media and to encourage people to go. Then, something happened that surprised me. When I posted about Bonhoeffer, I could count on two things happening. There would be a comment expressing concern about “Christian nationalism.” And there would be a link shared leading to a letter signed by many members of Bonhoeffer’s family expressing their grave reservations. I observed this dynamic on more than one occasion, which led me to wonder whether there was some kind of orchestrated opposition to the film and its message. Having seen "Bonhoeffer" and being a scholar of politics and religion, I can comment on the phenomenon from a position of knowledge. Why the apparent counter-campaign seemingly designed to reduce enthusiasm for the film and perhaps dissuading some portion of the potential audience from seeing it? I think the answer is quite straightforward and centers on Eric Metaxas. Metaxas, formerly a "VeggieTales" writer and creator of the "Socrates in the City" series of conversations in New York City, exploded into prominence with the publication of "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy" in 2009. The biography unexpectedly became a massive bestseller of the type that even finds its way into airport bookstores. While there was some protest from scholars that the book portrayed Bonhoeffer as something much more like an American evangelical than the German associate of Karl Barth he was, the negative reaction was minimal compared to the generally wholesome presentation of the man to a public that didn’t know him well. Everything changed when Metaxas became a vocal Donald Trump supporter in his writings and on his radio show.Bonhoeffer’s resistance to the Nazis makes him a hero of the church. Many evangelicals (especially elite evangelicals) have struggled with the Trump question over the years. Russell Moore and David French came down inalterably opposed to Trump, while Metaxas endorsed him enthusiastically. Before Trump, all three men would have been part of the same nexus of conservative evangelicals. For many, Metaxas’ support of Trump has tainted his association with Bonhoeffer. While Metaxas has not been part of the team producing the film about the German theologian, he has promoted it. I would suggest, then, that the effort made to gather up a letter of protest from members of the Bonhoeffer family and to gin up worries that Bonhoeffer has been made out as a symbol of Christian nationalism is really based on anger with Metaxas and the success he made writing about him. Metaxas, on this view, is unworthy to be associated with Bonhoeffer. But what about the film, itself, and its portrayal of Bonhoeffer? Is this some nasty job of warping one of the German heroes of resistance to Hitler into a champion of Christian nationalism? Does the photo of Bonhoeffer with a gun on posters translate him into a vigilante? The answers to both of these questions are no. I would argue that the resistance to the film has been unfair and that it deserves to be evaluated on its own merits. Who is the Bonhoeffer of the film? He is who we understand Bonhoeffer to have been. He was a German from a prominent family who studied theology, including at New York’s storied Union Theological Seminary, and ultimately became a great champion of the resistance to Hitler’s work in transforming the German church into something alien to orthodox Christianity. All of this is clear in the film and is portrayed, so as to give Christians a role model. The incredible surrender of the German church to Hitler’s new Aryanized “German Christianity” is a matter of record. It took incredible courage to push in a different direction, but Bonhoeffer did (as did Martin Niemoller, also portrayed in the film). Is he a Christian nationalist or even feasible in any way as a Christian nationalist? Not if what one means by Christian nationalism is a politically warped gospel. This Bonhoeffer is the one who fights for the church to be true to the transcendent God and not the various immanent ones we conjure up for ourselves. There is a second point that is notable. Bonhoeffer is a hero because he fought for the church to refuse to bend the knee to Hitler out of a right recognition of Christ as Lord. But tied in with that is the question of whether Bonhoeffer was involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler. Certainly, he did try to infiltrate the government. He served in the Abwehr, a military intelligence unit in Nazi Germany, as a double agent. The film portrays him smuggling Jews into Switzerland but, more importantly, wrestling with the decision to kill Hitler. This is a key point. Bonhoeffer’s resistance to the Nazis makes him a hero of the church. His involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler is a more difficult question. It is not easy to make out a case for a Christian to take part in such an operation. There are various threads of Christian thought that can be explored and considered, but that is part of what makes the film worth recommending. The Bonhoeffer of the movie wrestles with the disaster that has befallen his country and its people. While it is a tremendous challenge to paint the picture of one of the 20th century’s most notable lives and various compromises that must be made, "Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin." succeeds in its task. Those who already know the story will find it alternately encouraging and challenging. Those who don’t will see a moving portrayal of the struggle men and women of conscience faced in the crisis of Nazi Germany. This Bonhoeffer is not perfect, but he is a role model worthy of emulation. He loves music, people (of all races), and God, and he is willing to give his life for what he believes. The people who fired shots of concern over this film missed the mark.

Donald Trump has promised the largest mass deportation in the history of the United States in order to restabilize the country following the Biden regime’s open border policies that welcomed in and funded millions of illegal immigrants. To take on this gargantuan task, Trump has appointed Tom Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the next border czar. Homan seems prepared and eager to carry out the mission. But of course, leftists are screaming racism and xenophobia. They’re already throwing accusations that frail grandmothers will be deported, among other innocents. “You are carrying out a targeted enforcement operation. Grandma’s in the house. She’s undocumented. She get arrested too?” Homan was asked in a “60 Minutes” interview back in October. Mark Levin has a better question for this “reprobate” reporter. “How did Grandma get in the country?” he asks. “Here's the deal — everybody who's here illegally wasn't dragged out of their country and brought to the United States. They came voluntarily,” he says. That’s why “there's deportation processes in place under our immigration laws.” “Is there a grandma exception in our immigration laws if you come here illegally?” Levin asks. People have seemingly forgotten that if you “voluntarily come into this country,” then you are “[subjecting yourself] to our laws.” One might think that the Biden administration has forgotten it, too, but no. The open borders under the Biden-Harris regime are for one purpose: revolution by immigration. To hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above. Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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