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    “Christian Ethics Stuff” and the Death of Mother-Daughter Movie Icons

    When we walked in the door from watching the new Rogue One Star Wars movie last week we heard the sad news: Distraught over her daughter, Carrie Fisher’s  death, Debbie Reynolds had just died of a stroke.   (Slight spoiler alert) We had just watched a digitally young Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia in the final scene of Rogue One. One of the rebels hands her electronic intelligence delivered at the cost of many lives. When he asked what she’s been given, she lights up a smile and answers, “Hope.”   But in a tragic irony, sixty-year old Fisher died of cardiac arrest in the wake of years of the kind of…