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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: Just Do It

September 2, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: Just Do It

Click Here For This Week’s Readings. It’s one of the most basic and rudimentary rules for being a creative artist: You have to do it. I can’t be a writer based on all the great […]

Luke Cage
Geekdom

A Review of Netflix’s Luke Cage, Season 2

August 27, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on A Review of Netflix’s Luke Cage, Season 2

Luke Cage is perhaps one of the more difficult characters to bring to the screen. From his first appearance in 1972 as a blaxploitation-style hero-for-hire to his modern comic-book persona as a more grounded family […]

church
Spirituality

21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Do You Also Want to Leave?

August 26, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Do You Also Want to Leave?

     Click Here For This Week’s Readings. As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do […]

st francis
Spirituality

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Call of the Canticle

August 19, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Call of the Canticle

Click Here For This Week’s Readings. It’s the time of year when the Gardening Geeks know abundance. We give vegetables to our friends, our local food pantry, we freeze some for later, and we still […]

journey
Geekdom

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Food For the Journey

August 12, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Food For the Journey

Click Here For This Week’s Readings. Screenwriting coaches recommend breaking a story into “beats” — moments within the narrative arc which mark the rising and falling of dramatic tension. At the end of the second […]

eat
Literature

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: We Are What We Eat

August 5, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: We Are What We Eat

     Click Here For This Week’s Readings. One of the more consistent rules of visiting a mystical, supernatural realm is, be careful what you eat. In Greek mythology, Persephone ate some food from the Underworld […]

Spirituality

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Reflecting Paradise

July 29, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Reflecting Paradise

Click Here For This Week’s Readings. I’m probably showing my age here when I admit that I was almost thirty when the first Harry Potter book was published. In the midst of reading this delightfully […]

Geekdom

16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Greatest Story Ever Told

July 22, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Greatest Story Ever Told

Click Here For This Week’s Readings. In the Ancient World, gods were a dime-a-dozen. Some people had their favorites but for the most part, folks were not very picky about which gods they worshipped on […]

Movies

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Peace is Our Profession

July 15, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Peace is Our Profession

     Click Here for This Week’s Readings. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” Fans of Peter Sellers and/or Stanley Kubrick will recognize the line from the classic Cold-War comedy Dr. […]

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14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Hero’s Journey

July 8, 2018 Josh McDonald Comments Off on 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Hero’s Journey

Click Here for This Week’s Readings You can thank, or maybe blame, Joseph Campbell and George Lucas for popularizing the concept, but it seems like every story these days has to be about the “Hero’s […]

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