Chewbacca in the creche

I’ve been reading a lot of texts this week about welcoming the stranger and I went with this theme in the children’s sermon I gave on Christmas Eve wherein I put figurines and action figures (like Chewbacca) in a creche set. These are odd figures, yes?...

Super heroes in the city

I read last week that Paul Rudd is the latest actor to be cast in a superhero movie. He will be Ant-Man, which apparently is a Marvel Comics character. I’ve never been a huge comic-book reader so Ant-Man was a new one to me. But I enjoy the superhero movies and...

At moments like these it is hard not to wish for an end to suffering–a cancellation of it. But friends, a life without grief is hardly worth living, and someone who is not willing to give his or her life for something worth more than mere living is hardly alive.

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