Category: Columns
The Force Awakens: Worth the Wait
Editor’s note: Rev. Ted Giese has since written a more in-depth (including spoilers) review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens here. by Ted Giese Write something spoiler-free about Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Challenging, it is. But here we go! Set 30 years after the…
Honouring Your Father: Star Wars and the Fourth Commandment
by Ted Giese At this point, writing anything about Star Wars is like adding a drop of water into the ocean. Even so, as people welcome Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Episode VII), it’s worth taking a look at the previous films, particularly the original…
Breaking through our darkness
by Robert Bugbee “The people walking in the dark will see a great light.” – Isaiah 9:2 AAT When 2015 passes into the history books, it will not be remembered as a bright spot. Not in the world in general. And not in our church….
A Promised Peace
by Mathew Block For several weeks leading up to Christmas, the Church commemorates a season called Advent. The word comes from a variant of the Latin word for “to come,” and refers to the prophesied coming of Christ. Consequently, in Advent Christians do two things:…
Respecting life on Mars: The Martian in review
by Ted Giese Space exploration is dangerous, as Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi film The Martian illustrates. The movie tells the fictional story of astronaut Mark Watney, left for dead on the surface of Mars during an emergency evacuation of a NASA science mission. The stranded…