A recent post over at ChurchPOP about the conversion to Catholicism of famed actor Alec Guinness (a.k.a Obi-Wan “Ben” Kanobi) got me thinking about the monastic dimension of the whole Star Wars saga. The picture at the top of the post shows the enrobed Kanobi with the desert planet of Tatooine behind him. This congers up images of the Christian monks…