To millions, Carrie Fisher will always and forever be Princess Leia. Not an Emmy or Grammy Award winner, best-selling author or, for that mater, a flesh-and-blood human being. Yet to those who knew her, she was a remarkable force in their lives and a woman who knew how to make every day count like few others in history. One such […]
Look behind, look ahead, look to prayer. Look at this. Grief: I exhort you all to remember in prayer the lives of Sister Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher. I had the privilege of working in ministry with both of these Sister-in-Christ. While my experience with Sister Carrie was a roller coaster of unexpected twists, my work with Sister Debbie […]
We have such strange relationships with celebrities, don’t we? Of course, they are people we don’t really know, but somehow we personalize them for our own consumption, projecting onto them qualities and characteristics which they may—or may not—possess. And when celebrities endure for decades, these one-way relationships can last longer than relationships we have with real people in our lives. […]
