I love Star Wars but Star Trek: The Next Generation really cemented my feet in nerdom. I had grown up watching Star Wars and playing with the toys, but it was a little too mainstream to really make me a top-shelf nerd. Then came Star Trek: The Next Generation. I absolutely love TNG. I startedRead more
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I wrote this post after seeing the Sandcrawler building. Our church is functional but I would be much happier going to work in a Sandcrawler. This post got so many hits because, for a while, if you Googled “Helm’s Deep” the picture in this post was the top result. George Lucas is building a newRead more
I spent yesterday working at a toy drive in Hollywood with our high school group. We were setting up everything so that thousands of toys and school supplies could be given away to almost 2,000 kids. It’s a great opportunity to serve others and make Christmas possible for some kids who might not experience itRead more
Whenever there was a cross-cultural experience in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the crew of the Enterprise always interacted with some strange alien species. Through these experiences they learned what it meant to open their minds to different possibilities and cultures. My cross-cultural experiences have taught me a lot about different people groups. More importantly,Read more
As long as I can remember my family always had a nativity scene we pulled out for Christmas. When I was younger our nativity scene had little porcelain figures that all surrounded a little porcelain Jesus. Then we got a more abstract nativity scene with just Joseph, Mary and Jesus that I stole when IRead more
“We need to talk.” Those are four of my least favorite words in the English language. Nothing good rarely follows those four words. When Greedo needed to talk to Han he ended up dead. When Gandalf needed to talk to Frodo the world almost ended. When Picard needed to talk to Kirk it’s because KirkRead more