Category: Columns
The Eighth Day of the Week
by Timothy Teuscher A week, as we all know, is a seven-day period of time usually considered to extend from Sunday to Saturday. This pattern has been going on ever since the beginning of creation when God created the heavens and the earth in six…
The Cruciform Cosmos
by Mathew Block In his book, Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton writes that the shape of the cross makes a good symbol for our faith’s explanative power. Starting from a single point, the arms of the cross reach out in four directions. And no matter how far…
Don’t Look Up: Last laugh or last gasp?
by Ted Giese In Don’t Look Up, director Adam McKay uses the fictional threat of an impending Earth-bound comet impact and reaction to this news as an allegory for climate change. Written prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but with filming starting in 2020, the movie…
A Cure for the Winter Doldrums
by Robert Mohns “Teach me the way of Your statutes and I will keep it to the end. Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things and give me life in Your ways.” – Psalm 119:33 The short days and long periods of darkness of…
Death On the Nile: Poirot A-Woken
by Ted Giese Agatha Christie’s murder mystery about a beautiful heiress, Linnet Doyle née Ridgeway who is murdered on her honeymoon while traveling down Egypt’s Nile River has received a modern update in Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile. Readers of Christie’s 1937 novel and…
Generations Come and Go
by David Haberstock Holy Scripture lays down a pattern in Exodus. Moses, the white-bearded prophet (with a wonder-working staff) led the people out of slavery in Egypt, and he led the next generation in the wilderness and into the promised land. But due to their…
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