The scariest monsters are those that come from within!

JR. Forasteros - July 31, 2016

Stranger than Fiction

Top 10: Movies

Religion does a good job of making us feel better about our lives. We go to church, we pray, we serve. But these systems often end up disconnecting us from the world God loves. How can the story of God disrupt our systems and call us back to the life and flourishing God intended for us?

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Star Wars. Avatar. Up. When a story resonates with so many people it becomes a blockbuster, we should ask, "Why? What is it about this film that resonates with us?" People of faith can gain a window into desires of our culture, and we can discover how the Spirit is at work, that we might join in!

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This is the season of the year when people start to think about monsters – ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. We normally don’t think of monsters having anything to do with the Church, but we’d be wrong. The reason people tell monster stories is that monsters are a safe way to talk about things we’re not ready to admit about ourselves. We don’t want to see ourselves as selfish, unforgiving, ill-tempered. So we tell stories. We create monsters.

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