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Lord, free your people in Nicaragua. Strengthen them in this desert.
The first movie on this list should be better known. (It’s an indispensable part of our domestic Holy Week liturgy, viewed in three installments over Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.)
Thoughts on God’s mercy and the Prodigal Son:
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He opens the car door for me. He steps between me and oncoming traffic. He offers his arm when the terrain is uneven.
Little choreographies of protection so familiar they've become invisible—
like breathing, like prayer.
He never mentions these moments, never catalogs his vigilance, never seeks acknowledgment for the thousand subtle ways he places himself between me and harm's path.
Sometimes the deepest love is measured not in grand gestures, but in consistent angles—a body always positioned where danger might enter first.
So, if Iran nukes Israel with a U235 gun weapon modeled after Little Boy, do you think the Israelis are going to say "well, Professor Teller would have scoffed at this primitive firecracker, so we don't have to retaliate?" I mean, sure, it's more dangerous if they have a two megaton thermonuclear warhead as opposed to a 5 kiloton 1945 era warhead. But Iranian nuclear weapons are still dangerous, regardless of the design. No?