Category: Columns

June 14, 2017

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: The thrills and spills of being family

by Ted Giese Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is the continuing story of Peter Quill/Star Lord and his band of intergalactic misfit anti-heroes. In this installment of the Marvel franchise Quill finally meets his biological father who his mother insisted was “an angel composed…

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June 12, 2017

And I am the Only One Left

by Mathew Block The Prophet Elijah was hiding in a cave when the Word of God came to Him and asked him what he was doing. “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts,” Elijah said. “For the people of Israel…

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May 17, 2017

The Promise: A lesson from the past for the future

by Ted Giese The Promise is a sweeping historical drama set in 1915 at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of Turkey’s Ottoman Empire. The current Turkish government and its predecessors publicly deny this holocaust took place. Viewers need to know that…

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May 3, 2017

Luther’s Reformation: Yes, We Are Celebrating

by Robert Bugbee Down the years people have remembered Luther’s Reformation in countless ways. In some places, Lutheran Christians emphasized the virtues of Luther and his co-workers in a way that almost made it seem like we are “better people” than folks on the other…

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May 2, 2017

Do You Love to Fish?

by Glenn E. Schaeffer My friend, Roger Miller, died a few years ago after a lengthy fight with cancer, but he died “convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,…

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April 21, 2017

The Case for Christ – A Step in the Right Direction for Christian Films

by Ted Giese The Case for Christ is a docudrama detailing the story of a Chicago Tribune reporter, Lee Strobel, who attempts to disprove Christianity after his wife, Leslie, becomes a Christian following a “chance” encounter with a nurse who saves the life of their…

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