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Politics / Social Commentary / Star Trek / Uncategorized

Enemies in the Mirror: MAGA, Mamdani, and Star Trek’s Timeless Truth

By Steve on November 18, 2025

What Let That Be Your Last Battlefield reveals about today’s political rivalries. There is an episode in the classic 60’s Star Trek series titled “Let That Be Your Battlefield” where Captain Kirk and his crew encounter an…

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God's Kingdom / Podcast / Politics / Social Commentary / Trump

Episode 090: Postcards from Babylon with Brian Zahnd

By Steve on May 9, 2019

    Download episode on iTunes here Download episode on Stitcher here Hi Pilgrim, Brian Zahnd returns to share with us topics from his new book Postcards from Babylon: The Church in American Exile. Along…

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Americana / Books / Obama / Politics / Social Commentary

Top Ten Best Books: 2013

By Steve on December 27, 2013

I read a lot.  In the pre-digital world I would have certainly struggled to remember every book I had read in a given year. Now though I need only scroll through my Amazon purchases of…

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Social Commentary

“Piglets For Progress”: Bringing A Little Heaven To Earth

By Steve on October 26, 2013

Connie Mudore is a good friend of mine who I worked with here in Hong Kong before she left for Chiang Mai, Thailand a couple years ago.  Since arriving in Thailand she has become involved…

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Social Commentary

Ending Slavery: Bringing Heaven to Earth

By Steve on January 6, 2013

I wanted to share a great video I saw on CNN yesterday.  Christians, particularly young people,  raising awareness and making a stand against the the blight of slavery which still runs rampant across the globe….

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Film / Hong Kong / Social Commentary / Uncategorized

Weekend Update Nov 25, 2012

By Steve on November 25, 2012

Film making in Hong Kong I love movies so much it was only a matter of time before I started making them myself…and Hong Kong is a great city to shoot in!  It’s a Christmas…

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Americana / Democrats / G.O.P. / Politics / Social Commentary

Thanksgiving: From A Democrat and Republican perspective

By Steve on November 23, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving! I love living in Hong Kong but at times like this you really feel the pull toward family back home and gathering around the dinner table to celebrate… and if you are a Detroiter…to…

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Christianity / Movie Review / Social Commentary

Nicholas Cage gets Left Behind

By Steve on October 31, 2012

The Hollywood Reporter announced that the rapture focused reboot of the “Left Behind” series has been green lit.  And whats more, the casting for the reboot is moving up a notch with Nicolas Cage joining…

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China / Hong Kong / Politics / Social Commentary / Steve's Life

Steve’s Letter to the Editor

By Steve on June 3, 2012

Some of you saw my photo on Facebook of the “Letter to the Editor” that I wrote and was published in the South China Post newspaper this week.  Some asked for a full reprint as…

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Americana / Social Commentary

George Washington & Religious Tolerance

By Steve on May 25, 2012

I’m a big fan of George Washington.  As a child growing up he was frequently referred to as “The father of our country” in school and now as an adult I see how he created…

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