Category: Feature Stories
Respecting life on Mars: The Martian in review
by Ted Giese Space exploration is dangerous, as Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi film The Martian illustrates. The movie tells the fictional story of astronaut Mark Watney, left for dead on the surface of Mars during an emergency evacuation of a NASA science mission. The stranded…
Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation
by Edward G. Kettner October 31, 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of what is considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. On that date Martin Luther nailed 95 theses for debate concerning the issue of indulgences onto the door of the Castle Church in…
A Reformation Moment: Making the Most of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
by Mathew Block Sometime around the year 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the mechanical movable type printing press. And the world changed. Gutenberg’s press allowed book production on a scale never before seen in Europe. Before the printing press, books were produced slowly through the painstaking…
Reforming Our Church
by Paul Schallhorn Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is about to change.This year, LCC’s three districts meeting in convention called on Synod to restructure. In other words, they’re asking LCC to change the way it’s built. What exactly we look like in the end depends to a…
Black Mass: Cold and dark in Boston
by Ted Giese Set in South Boston, Black Mass details the criminal exploits of James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger, the Winter Hill Gang, and their entanglement with the FBI. More than a bio-pic, Black Mass deals with broader themes of truth and lies, secrets, and raw…
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