With all that is happening in our world with Covid-19 pandemic, youth churches and youth ministries are currently meeting virtually. I see tons of great things youth workers doing and I applaud them, but I still think about the youth workers who were already on shaky ground with their churncor youth ministry and this chaos…
I picked up the book On Writing by horror author Stephen King. There is a great couple of paragraphs, at the beginning of the book, where his mother encourages Stephen to write his own stories versus copying the stories from his comic book Combat Casey. Within these two paragraphs lies a few keys to unlocking…
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“What if it’s a necessary lie?” – Ravonna Episode six of season one of Loki was a good one and if you keep reading there may be some spoilers. You’ve been warned. Are we free or are we being manipulated? That is the deeper question being asked in this episode. The TVA is a lie.…
This episode of Loki was packed with great lines making it hard to choose a theme to write on, but the overall theme of this episode was about how to defeat an entity called and Alioth. According to Marvel Fandom,”Alioth is a trans-temporal entity, existing across divergent timelines as an enormous cloud destroying all it…
Do you believe you are destined to be alone ? – Mobius, Loki Episode 4 Episode four of Loki was a lot of fun and packed with surprises. There were several threads I wanted to pull on but the line I quote above is the one I chose. Loki and his variant Sylvie sat at…
Loki’s episode three was not my favorite episode, so far, but it was a good one. I’ll stay away from any spoilers if you have not watched the episode yet. Loki catches up to his variant Sylvie and talk quite a bit about love, of all things, as they get know each other. So, what…
In episode two of Loki, Mobius and Loki have a heart to heart about their existence. They sound like two people of different religions comparing notes, each fully convinced that what they believe is true and what the other is saying is completely crazy. Here’s a snippet of their conversation. Loki: You really believe in…
“I am burdened with glorious purpose!” And with big eyes and an open mouth I answered, “I’m Loki”. My wife and I watched the first episode of Loki starring Tom Hiddleston and playing on Disney + and I had an epiphany. I left full time youth ministry to start a youth worker coaching business, travel,…
