Category: Feature Stories

September 2, 2015

A Not-so-Fantastic Four

by Ted Giese If a movie has the word fantastic in the title it should work really hard to be fantastic. Josh Trank, the director of this current reboot of the MARVEL comic book franchise “Fantastic Four” tweeted: “A year ago I had a fantastic…

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August 20, 2015

Ant-Man: A little fun and virtue

by Ted Giese By Marvel Studio standards, Ant-Man is a small movie. Unlike other films in the comic-book driven franchise, it isn’t about saving the world from imminent destruction. Instead, Scott Lang and Dr. Hank Pym are more interested in saving their relationships with their…

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August 17, 2015

Lutheran Church-Canada in numbers

Editor’s note: An image layering problem resulted in the province of Quebec being unintentionally hidden from view in the print edition of the July/August 2015 issue of The Canadian Lutheran. We apologize for the error. You can download a corrected pdf of the article here….

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August 6, 2015

Beggars telling beggars where to find food

by Leonardo Neitzel The Missionary D.T. Niles once said that sharing the Gospel is really about one ‘beggar telling other beggars where to find food.’ Before coming to Christ as our Saviour, we are beggars, poor and condemned sinners, with no strength or power of…

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August 4, 2015

The Story Continues

by Peggy Pedersen When we look at the Bible we see a story. It has heroes and sinners. It has births and battles. It depicts moments of triumph and despair. A man, Abram, is called out of Ur and becomes a family; and that family,…

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July 30, 2015

Old, obsolete or worn out? – Terminator Genisys

by Ted Giese All the Terminator franchise films share basic elements. They are all sci-fi movies involving time travel. They all have good guys and bad guys who want to stop an event in time from happening. They are all movies about a robot apocalypse…

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