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Why Christians Shouldn’t Be Klingons (1 Thessalonians 5:15)

June 15, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - church life, one another, peace, retaliation, revenge, spirituality, Star Trek, violence

“What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?” Wyatt Earp asked. “A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it,” Doc Holliday replied. “What does

Star Trek Generations, Eschatology, and the Meaning of Life

April 10, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Eschatology, Star Trek

I recently re-watched Star Trek Generations, the movie that had both Captain Kirk and Captain Picard. I had not seen it since it came out in 1994. It turns out the film is a debate about the meaning of life after death. It’s about eschatology. The plot of Generations centers around an extra-dimensional reality called