Category: Columns
Return to the Lord your God
by Robert Mohns “‘Yet even now,’ declares the Lord, ‘return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.’ Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to…
Peace when there is no peace
by Mathew Block “They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace…” Jeremiah 6:14, 8:11 These words, uttered by God in the leadup to the destruction of Jerusalem and the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity, are spoken…
The Suicide Squad: Caught Between Heroic and Psychotic
by Ted Giese In what can be considered a true sequel to David Ayer’s 2006 film Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s 2021 The Suicide Squad clearly benefited from less studio interference. Hamstrung and muddled, Ayer’s film never quite achieved what the director desired to put on…
A Change in Focus
by Marvin Bublitz O God, the protector of all who trust in You, have mercy on us that with You as our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporal that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our…
Return to the Lord your God
by Robert Mohns Several years ago, I spent about three months walking across the northern part of Spain. I left behind my family and friends, work, a familiar way of life, and all my possessions (save for a change of clothes and a few necessities),…
The Green Knight—A Tale Tried, Tested, and Inverted
by Ted Giese This eerie and foreboding retelling of the epic late 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a purposeful inversion of the long-studied and revered anonymous work. While it diverges at some points from the general narrative of the…
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