Category: Columns

December 18, 2014

The Gift of Love

by Thomas Prachar You may be familiar with the short story “The Gift of the Magi,” written by American author William Sydney Porter in 1905. Or maybe you know him by his pen name, O. Henry. The story is a Christmas favourite that tells the…

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December 15, 2014

God in the Flesh: The meaning of Christmas

by Mathew Block When it comes to Christmas, the picture of the baby Jesus asleep in a manger is etched in our cultural consciousness. We imagine the little Lord Jesus laying down His sweet head in the hay, while stars twinkle away in the sky….

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December 10, 2014

There’s Music in the Air

by Paul Zabel “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in Him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to Him” (Psalm 28:7). I truly enjoy listening to music. And, to be honest, I…

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December 8, 2014

Word and mind-games in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

by Ted Giese Francis Lawrence’s Mockingjay: Part 1 is the third movie in the film franchise based on the popular young adults book series Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Picking up after the events of the second film, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen finds herself under…

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November 21, 2014

Interstellar: Thoughtful sci-fi delivers love, evil, and a black hole

by Ted Giese Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar is more like his 2010 film Inception than his trilogy of Batman movies. It’s both cerebral and emotionally intense. This is no Star Trek, Star Wars space opera (space-soap-opera); Interstellar is a more “hard” sci-fi film in…

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November 10, 2014

Lois and Eunice, Servants of God

by Robert Bugbee “I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also” (2 Timothy 1:5). That was Paul, near the end of his life, writing…

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