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Disney’s Andor: New Hope for Star Wars
(Contains minor spoilers for “Andor”) If you are a “Star Wars” fan, you probably already know about Disney’s sleeper hit series “Andor” which concluded its second (and final) series a few weeks ago. As a prequel to the movie “Rogue One”, “Andor” traces the story of the Rebel Alliance from its earliest stages through to the intelligence breakthrough that finally allows Luke Skywalker to destroy the Death Star in “Star Wars” Episode IV (“A New Hope”). The show was only about three or four weeks old back in 2022 when I stumbled onto it with my son. We immediately knew that we were watching something special—and something very different from…
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The Queen is D … More Alive than Ever
Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves—from our recklessness or our greed. God sent into the world a unique person—neither a philosopher nor a general, important though they are, but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. (Queen Elizabeth II, Christmas message, 2011) We thanked God for Queen Elizabeth over breakfast today. We thanked God for Queen Elizabeth over breakfast today. We thanked him for her long life and faithful service. We thanked him that she acknowledged Jesus as her True King and that she has now received a rich welcome into his presence because of his death…