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Month: December 2025

Wake Up Dead Man (Knives Out 3)

Wake Up Dead Man (Knives Out 3)

We watched the third installment of the Knives Out series last night, titled Wake Up Dead Man. My initial feeling on the film is that it is my favorite of the three films. What stuck out to me most was the examples of true Christian forgiveness in the movie.

From the article below, this sums up my feelings. Go watch the movie, then read this article.

You won’t see a better portrait of a clergy person striving to embody Jesus’ selfless love than in Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man,” the third in his “Knives Out” whodunit series.

https://www.ncronline.org/culture/very-catholic-knives-out-rian-johnson-talks-priests-forgiveness-and-complicated-faith

The film is still a murder mystery. There are plenty of non-Christian things that happen. Benoit Blanc is a self-described non-believer and has no problem expressing these feelings. But I prefer the way Christianity is displayed here more than I do a lot of other places that claim to be Christian.

Article About Prison Baseball

Article About Prison Baseball

I came across this really interesting article in the New York times today about a baseball team from San Quentin (the prison near San Francisco). The article describes the benefit to the incarcerated in their rehabilitation through baseball.

One of the big points that really hit me was this:

For almost all the players on the team, it was also in the weeks or months after their final youth baseball seasons that their lives went downhill.

I really do recommend this article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/san-quentin-prison-baseball-team.html?unlocked_article_code=1.708.6q29.rGAvs7ZOdeJ6&smid=url-share

New origin date of human fire-making discovered

New origin date of human fire-making discovered

I think this is fascinating. Archaeologists have found the earliest known instance of human-created fire, in the village of Barnham in England, which they have determined occurred 400,000 years ago. This pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years.

This is a pretty extensive article, delving into how they propose this site is so old and how they know the evidence of fire is human in origin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e