Category: Columns

January 21, 2020

Abrams’ End to the Star Wars Saga

Abrams’ End to the Star Wars Saga By Ted Giese As The Rise of Skywalker opens, General Leia Organa and her beleaguered Resistance are foiled, and find themselves attempting to stay alive to fight another day. The First Order grips the universe in a blanket…

Read More

December 30, 2019

Frozen II: Knee-Deep in a Religious Blizzard

by Ted Giese Frozen II, the sequel to Disney’s massive 2013 hit Frozen, sees sisters Queen Elsa and Princess Anna continue to grapple with Elsa’s growing magical powers. Set in the fictional mid-19th century Norwegian kingdom of Arendelle, the animated film solves the mystery of…

Read More

December 25, 2019

An Exodus… An Incarnation

by Robert Mohns “But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of…

Read More

December 24, 2019

Help is on the Way

by Marvin Bublitz As I travel around the East Region, at times I need to stay in hotels. Some are in bigger cities and some in small towns. When I stay in places like Montreal or Toronto, it seems that all night I hear sirens—ambulances…

Read More

December 24, 2019

God in a Box

by Timothy Teuscher “Post-modernism” is a word used to describe our society and culture here in the 21st century. In a book I recently read on this subject as it pertains to the mission of the church, the author describes post-modernism in these words: “It…

Read More

December 17, 2019

Christmas Presence

by Mathew Block The Christmas story as it appears in St. John’s Gospel is not the version with which we are most familiar. There are no mentions here of Mary and Joseph, no angels singing to shepherds in the fields, no baby being wrapped in…

Read More