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Slate of nominees for LCC’s 2022 Synod Convention announced

…– West Region Larry Walter – West Region Rev. Ted Giese – Central Region Rev. Warren Hamp – East Region Rev. Kirk Radford – East Region Rev. Kurt Reinhardt –…

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The Suicide Squad: Caught Between Heroic and Psychotic

…with 2006’s film Slither and work for schlock horror production company Troma Entertainment. At any rate, this R-rated film by Gunn—while well crafted, acted, and directed—is not for everyone. ———————…

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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…

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Saint and Sinner in Disney’s Cruella

by Ted Giese In Disney’s new movie Cruella, Estella/Cruella is an orphan girl with a split personality—one half kind, the other half cruel. While on the run she falls in…

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The French Dispatch: Colourful, Obsessive Show-and-Tell

by Ted Giese Set in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch chronicles the publication of the last edition of “The French Dispatch,” a supplement in…

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Ghostbusters: Calling the Reit Number!

by Rev. Ted Giese A down-on-her-luck single mother, Callie, moves her young nerdy science-obsessed daughter Phoebe and mechanically-inclined teenaged son Trevor to her estranged father’s farmhouse to settle his affairs…

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