December 2005

We Finally Saw Narnia!

by Steve Ray on December 31, 2005

Janet and I, along with our youngest daughter Emily finally slowed down enough to see The Chronicals of Narnia yesterday afternoon. We loved the movies and were delighted with the way the story was relayed. I have great praise for Disney for making this movie and keeping it faithful to the book. I hope they [...]

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Assistance from Muslim Nations?

by Steve Ray on December 31, 2005

A Catholic Look at Society, Culture and Politics (My note: Notice the comments on how much assistance was given by the United States and especially by Catholic Relief Services and how little assistance was given by rich Muslim countries. It says a lot about the perspective of each religion. Emphasis in red is my own.) Deal [...]

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Fake Priests

by Steve Ray on December 30, 2005

My friend Ed Peters, canon lawyer, has written about a recent case of a man impersonating a priest. He writes: “Fox News reports that a fake priest served for several months in the diocese of Linz (Austria) before being discovered as a fraud. He has since left the area. Of course, imposters can infiltrate any organization, [...]

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Soldiers in the Airport

by Steve Ray on December 28, 2005

You may have already seen this commercial, but even after seeing it several times myself, it still makes me stop and wish I was there so I could clap too. Click here for a short video.

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30,000 in Bethlehem

by Steve Ray on December 26, 2005

Bethlehem Seeing More Pilgrims BETHLEHEM, West Bank, DEC. 25, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Bethlehem enjoyed a sizable influx of Christmas pilgrims from around the world. Some 30,000 people — 10,000 more than last year — arrived to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the largest turnout since Palestinian-Israeli fighting broke out in September 2000. At Midnight Mass on [...]

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Merry Christmas from Bethlehem

by Steve Ray on December 24, 2005

Janet and I have been to Bethlehem several times this year (3 or 4 times — I lose count). We want to share Christmas greetings with you from the place of Our Lord's birth. We had the wonderful opportunity of taking 50 pilgrims into Bethlehem a few months ago. I watched  their emotion and wonder as [...]

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If you haven’t seen this movie . . .

by Steve Ray on December 24, 2005

. . . run out and find a copy and watch it. I finally had a chance to watch it last night – and I highly recommend it. It is a tough movie to watch at times and it is in German with English subtitles – but it was exceptional. I will watch it again this week. The [...]

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Afraid to say “Merry Christmas”

by Steve Ray on December 23, 2005

Everywhere I go nowadays I hear “Happy Holidays!“ And everywhere I go I say “Merry Christmas” with an emphasis on Christ-mas. People usually respond back with a big smile and quickly say “Merry Christmas.” It's as though they're afraid to offend someone. When I say “Merry Christmas” it's like they sudden they received the secret handshake which allows [...]

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Great Bumper Sticker

by Steve Ray on December 23, 2005

You can purchase your own by clicking on the bumper sticker below.

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Christmas Letter from My Son Jesse and his wife Anna

by Steve Ray on December 20, 2005

My daughter-in-law Anna Ray just sent a colorful family Christmas letter full of delightful pictures of our grandkids. Fun to read, especially if your last name is Ray :-)  If you decide to see it, it is a large pdf file, so give it a minute to load.

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Dave Amstrong Asks for Prayer

by Steve Ray on December 19, 2005

Many of you know my good friend and fellow apologist David Armstrong. He is well known by his books and his excellent website. His dad has cancer and Dave has written a letter to explain the situation and to ask for prayer. You can read the letter here. While praying for Dave Armstrong, remember another [...]

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Exciting Shoot with the Lion

by Steve Ray on December 16, 2005

Well, we finally did our video shoot with the Lion. We were quite excited to find out Kenya the Lion was the face on all the Narnia advertisements and was the model for the computerized lion in the movie. Anyway, we drove back into the mountains near Valencia California and met with the trainers at [...]

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Kenya the Lion

by Steve Ray on December 14, 2005

  Today we are heading out to the Friendly Jungle in southern California to film two sequences with Kenya the huge male lion (see picture). These shots will be used in our David/Solomon and our Fathers of the Church projects. We have Kenya for 8 hours and I will post pictures and a report as [...]

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Advantages of Marriage

by Steve Ray on December 12, 2005

This weekend's edition of Zenit had an interesting article entitled Making Room for Same-Sex Marriages. In it, one of Britain's most senior former judges, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss commented that the advantages of marriage were now "not sufficiently trumpeted." What are the advantages of marriage? Zenit continued: “Some of these advantages [of marriage] were highlighted in a study [...]

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New Photos

by Steve Ray on December 10, 2005

I have added new photos at the bottom of my Home Page. Notice especially the picture of the rainbow over Bethlehem (click on the small image to see it larger). I rented a flock of sheep outside Bethlehem and we were filming our “shepherd segment.” It was a magic moment and the rainbow hung there for over an [...]

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Deep in the Bowels . . .

by Steve Ray on December 10, 2005

. . . of the edit bay out here in Phoenix Arizona, Janet and I are working on the post-production of our next video/DVD David & Solomon: Expanding the Kingdom. We are searching for and adding art, chosing musical selections, creating maps, recording my voice-overs, and working with all the scenes we shot in Israel last month.  [...]

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