Sunday Worship

GO FIGURE

Dearly Beloved, “Go figure!” Do you know the origin of the phrase? Guess what? It is not known, but it likely stems from colloquial American English in the 20th century. It is thought to have originated as a shortened, casual form of saying, “Go and figure that out,” meaning, “Try to make sense of that…

The Lost Boys

In 1904 James Barrie wrote a story about a boy who never grew up and an ordinary girl named Wendy in a place called Neverland, along with a group of children named “The Lost Boys.”  In Barrie’s original works, the Lost Boys leave Neverland and grow up, while in the Disney films they are merely…