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Zombie Bake-Off

A Cruel, Samey Attempt at Horror Comedy Author: Stephen Graham Jones What happens when a group of Pro-Wresters arrives early to their venue, only to crash a soccer-mom style baking event? You send them to the back room . . . where they unfortunately eat infected donuts and turn into the living dead. From here, all you need to do is accidentally lock everyone in the building, block the loading dock, and scream and run around a lot. Honestly, it’s a concept that could have been cute on the big screen. Think of my all-time favorites: Zombie Strippers and Sharknado. Sometimes [...]

Frances Carden2024-01-21T17:06:17-07:00January 21st, 2024|Tags: book review, Comedy, horror, read, reading|

Sleeping Giants

Alien Secrets, International Intrigue, Rouge Teams Author: Sylvain Neuvel It starts in the US, in a little town in South Dakota, but then it goes worldwide. It begins with a cryptic hand – a giant glowing hand, coming out of the earth, covered in words from an ancient language. What powers this hand? What does it mean? Where is it from? How did it suddenly rise above the soil to be found? And where, most importantly, are the other pieces of this giant body? When assembled, will the robotic entity be used for good or evil? The US is involved, and [...]

Frances Carden2024-01-15T22:11:01-07:00January 15th, 2024|Tags: book review, botm, read, reading, science fiction|

Meditating on the Word

Essays and Readings on How to Meditate on Scripture Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer For the C.S. Lewis Fellowship’s October study, fellows dove into the Word of God, including everything from its authenticity, its accuracy, it’s role in our life, and how we should use it to meditate. As a part of this study, we were all asked to read Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Meditating on the Word, which is a collection of Bonhoeffer’s writings (some of them unfinished) about the importance of meditating on scripture and being led by scripture above all things. Although it’s never stated, the theme is “sola scriptura,” or scripture [...]

Frances Carden2024-04-03T06:29:33-07:00January 14th, 2024|Tags: Bonhoeffer, Christian, meditating, read, reading, scripture|