Category: Columns

December 29, 2021

Rushing through Christmastide?

by David Haberstock The end of the year is upon us. Things are speeding up, aren’t they? They’re hastening on, pushing, pushing toward Christmas. But what is pushing us? Christ? His Church? Or is it the pressures of the world? The push to spend, spend,…

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December 28, 2021

The Christmas Exchange

  by Timothy Teuscher Friends, co-workers, classmates exchanging gifts at Christmas parties and at various get-togethers over the holidays. Family members gathered around a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve or early Christmas morning to exchange gifts. Stores crowded with people on Boxing Day exchanging those…

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December 20, 2021

The French Dispatch: Colourful, Obsessive Show-and-Tell

by Ted Giese Set in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch chronicles the publication of the last edition of “The French Dispatch,” a supplement in a fictional New Yorker-style magazine called the Evening Sun. The magazine is headquartered in Liberty,…

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December 15, 2021

I can hardly wait

by Marvin Bublitz Have you ever wondered how much time you spend waiting? You wait in line at one store or another. You wait at the stop light. You wait for a parking spot. You wait to be seated. You wait to pay the cashier….

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December 10, 2021

In Your Presence

by Mathew Block You’re at a church event when suddenly everything seems to change. You become captivated. Your heart beats fast. The air seems thick and heavy—almost suffocating. You seem to feel God all around you. “Surely,” you think to yourself, “the LORD is in…

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December 9, 2021

Dune: A Sublime yet Bleak Adaptation

by Ted Giese Focusing on the first half of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune chronicles a young prince’s tragic coming of age amidst a futuristic struggle for power, resources, and influence between feudalistic nobility and specialized guilds. Noble houses…

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