FROM THE PULPIT: THE GREATEST STORY (AND IT'S TRUE)

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Sunday, April 30, 2000

The long-awaited day has finally arrived. Star Wars episode 1, "The Phantom Menace" videos are out! You can bet our family bought one the very first day. We watch eagerly the previous three Star Wars releases occasionally, and the dialogue from those movies is a part of our dialogue. It seems to me that Star Wars is part of our cultural life, in a similar way that the stories of the Brothers Grimm, or Mother Goose, or "fairy tales," or Aesop's Fables were in past years. George Lucas in one of today's premium storytellers.

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