The Witcher and the Nature of Legends (LTN)
Legends are embellished, twisted, and even dishonest about the people they venerate. Netflix’s The Witcher shows how, even still, we need them all the same.
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Legends are embellished, twisted, and even dishonest about the people they venerate. Netflix’s The Witcher shows how, even still, we need them all the same.
Continue readingStar Wars: Revenge of the Sith illustrates the danger of moralizing without love and why the best of us can fall so far without it.
Continue readingFurry characters exist as the stylized versions of their creators’ best selves, who share their love and creativity through fursuiting and conventions.
Continue readingIn Star Wars, Qui-Gon Jinn’s relationship to the Force can tell us how a selfless, meditative approach to prayer can deepen one’s closeness to God.
Continue readingThe furry fandom is far more than its sterotypes suggest with a diverse community rife with genuine love, humbling honesty, and deeply personal creativity.
Continue readingThe How to Train Your Dragon reminds me of my grandfather and the legacy he left behind with a theme of life: With love comes sacrifice.
Continue readingNostalgia can add to our lives and benefit the films, games, and shows we love—and how it can likewise be a hindrance.
Continue readingYou know those spiffy airplanes that have screens on the back of the chairs in front of you? It’s such a great way to kill time on lengthy flights and catch up on films you might’ve missed. I was on a flight that had one of those the year I…
Continue readingSpoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi are thoroughly discussed here. You’ve been warned . . . Rey doesn’t understand The Force. It’s a grand mystery of the Star Wars universe that surrounds, penetrates, and binds all things and beings together. However, the uninitiated understandably see it as a power…
Continue readingIn the wake of Veterans Day, I’ve found myself thinking about Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss. Doss was an army medic in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. As a Seventh-day Adventist, he not only requested to observe the Sabbath on Saturdays, but he also refused…
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