My wife and I saw Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on Monday and the movie 1917 yesterday. The first is the last of nine films in the “space myth” franchise; the second is a deeply moving encounter with the horrors of World War I.
No one but those who made the films has been to the real world of Star Wars, but that fact has not kept millions of fans from seeing the movies, reading the novels, buying the merchandise, and visiting the theme parks. By contrast, my grandfather served in World War I and witnessed tragedies so gruesome that he refused to speak of them after the war ended.
This Christmas week, we’re asking what Christmas can teach our post-Christian culture about Christ. We have focused on the power, humility, grace, and hope of Christmas. Today, we’ll consider the reality and relevance of Christmas for our world all year long.
What the brokenness of the world proves
A mother and two children died after falling from a parking garage in Boston on Christmas Day. Investigators now believe that the mother threw her children from the building, then jumped to her own death.
ESPN college football reporter Ed Aschoff was a rising star on television and set to be married in April. Then he contracted pneumonia on November 30 while covering Ohio State’s victory over Michigan. He died Tuesday on his thirty-fourth birthday.
A massive redwood tree fell in Muir Woods National Monument in California on Christmas Eve, killing a man who was walking one of the trails. A typhoon struck the Philippines on Christmas Day, killing at least twenty-eight people. A passenger plane crashed this morning shortly after takeoff in Kazakhstan, killing at least twelve people.
The Coast Guard is searching for a helicopter with seven people onboard that failed to return from a tour in Hawaii. And a girl was pronounced dead yesterday at Los Angeles International Airport after she suffered a heart attack while aboard a plane bound for…
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