As I mentioned yesterday in my post about Ash Wednesday, I didn’t grow up in a liturgical environment. Traditions likes Ash Wednesday and Lent were foreign to my good Baptist upbringing and me. In recent years I have learned more about liturgical styles of worship. I’ve learned more about different liturgical seasons like Lent. BeforeRead more
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Earlier this week I wrote about J.J. Abrams directing Episode 7. I wrote that he’s a good choice to continue the Star Wars saga and that he will be a great steward of the franchise. Faithful reader and commenter, Mike, shared that Abrams’ faithful stewardship of Star Wars could encourage us to faithfully steward thoseRead more
I believe that there is a lot of scientific evidence that points to a Creator. It seems unlikely to me that the entire universe happened by accident. I know plenty of people don’t hold that opinion, but the universe is just too beautiful and too perfect to have been the result of the equivalent ofRead more
I made a list of some nerdy resolutions and I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping up with them. I haven’t played any Skyrim yet, but I have found new iPhone game to waste too much of my time. Our nerdy resolutions probably aren’t that difficult to keep. Most other resolutions, though, aren’t asRead more
Anakin and Luke both spent time with Obi-Wan and Yoda, yet their paths couldn’t have been any more divergent. Anakin became Darth Vader and helped plunge the galaxy into a decades-long darkness. Luke became the last of the Jedi and helped restore freedom to the galaxy. There is one main difference in their stories: Palpatine.Read more
X-Men 3 is a terrible movie. The first two movies were incredible but, when Bryan Singer left the third movie in Brett Ratner’s incapable hands, things quickly went south. They wasted the Dark Phoenix storyline, the villainous mutants were lame and they had Cyclops unceremoniously killed. Now that 20th Century Fox hired Mark Millar, aRead more