Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange (2016; Directed by Scott Derrickson), has just become available on Netflix. I decided I would watch it and went in without high expectations. I expected too many fight scenes and not enough metaphor. Perhaps the former was true, but I also found sufficient metaphor and story to keep my interest. I did not…
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The Paradox of Suffering and God’s Love
A few days ago I wrote an entry entitled “Sacrifices” to remind us that God wants our trust more than he desires sacrifices from us. The blog was prompted by our common desire to do something for God in order that we might get back into good relationship him, specifically when we experience suffering and…
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Lest We Forget
A portion of “Recessional,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling, composed in 1897. God of our fathers, known of old—Lord of our far-flung battle line—Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine—Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies—The Captains and the…
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