The Walking Dead, Gun Control, and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Linking Zombies to Current Events

To quote Zach Handlen of the A.V. Club on the kind of world zombie TV show The Walking Dead has created for itself: "At heart, The Walking Dead is really only interested in one theme: What do you have to become to survive in a world like this one? It's an issue that's come up again and again and again over the years, and the inherent limitation of that theme is the one thing, at least for me, that keeps the show from achieving true greatness"

In Handlen's estimation the show is limited in its range because there is only so much you can do with a plot where everyone is continually forced into the extremes of human behavior. I mostly agree with him and perhaps the answer to this is to set an end date for a serial television show of this kind. There is only so much explicating on the questions "Should I or should I not kill this person, and how!?" a television show can do before it becomes grievously redundant.

Plunge into the glorious mystery: A Sermon For Trinity Sunday

As a teenager I read through the whole Bible over the course of a few years. It took me a while to slog through some of the more obscure books—the Levitical laws and the prophets—a lot of the Old Testament stuff. The New Testament was different though. The Gospels and the book of Acts were these riveting narratives and the Epistles—of Paul and Peter and John and whoever else—contained this complicated philosophy I was only beginning to understand.

Well if you go back and look at my old Bibles (either an NKJV or an NASB) in many New Testament passages you will find the symbol above scribbled all over the margins.