diff --git a/lib/actor.js b/lib/actor.js
index 71b5750..57a21e7 100644
--- a/lib/actor.js
+++ b/lib/actor.js
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class Actor {
     this.path = parent.path.createChildPath(this.name);
     this.system = system;
     this.reference = new ActorReference(this.system.name, this.parent.reference, this.path, this.name);
-    this.log = this.system.createLogger || this.system.createLogger(this.reference);
+    this.log = this.system.createLogger(this.reference);
     this.f = f;
     this.state = undefined;
     this.stopped = false;
@@ -202,13 +202,7 @@ const spawn = (parent, f, name, properties) =>
   systemMap.applyOrThrowIfStopped(parent, p => p.assertNotStopped() && new Actor(p, name, p.system, f, properties).reference);
 
 const spawnStateless = (parent, f, name, properties) =>
-  spawn(parent, function (state, msg, ctx) {
-    try {
-      return f.call(ctx, msg, ctx);
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.error(e);
-    }
-  }, name, properties);
+  spawn(parent, (state, msg, ctx) => f.call(ctx, msg, ctx), name, { onCrash: (_, __, ctx) => ctx.resume, ...properties });
 
 module.exports.spawn = spawn;
 module.exports.spawnStateless = spawnStateless;
diff --git a/lib/monitoring/index.js b/lib/monitoring/index.js
index e8eb1ac..5f994e6 100644
--- a/lib/monitoring/index.js
+++ b/lib/monitoring/index.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const { logToConsole } = require('./console-engine');
 const configureLogging = (engine) => (system) => {
   const loggingActor = engine(system.reference);
   if (loggingActor) {
-    return Object.assign(system, { createLogger: (reference) => new LoggingFacade(loggingActor, reference) });
+    system.createLogger = (reference) => new LoggingFacade(loggingActor, reference);
   } else {
     throw new Error('Logging engine is not defined');
   }
diff --git a/lib/system.js b/lib/system.js
index 30a0d76..547d04f 100644
--- a/lib/system.js
+++ b/lib/system.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ class ActorSystem {
   constructor (extensions) {
     let [hd, ...tail] = extensions;
     this.children = new Map();
+    this.createLogger = () => undefined;
     this.name = (typeof (hd) === 'object' && hd.name) || generateSystemId();
     this.path = ActorPath.root(this.name);
     this.reference = new ActorSystemReference(this.name, this.path);
diff --git a/test/actor.js b/test/actor.js
index 24525a6..75f5a71 100644
--- a/test/actor.js
+++ b/test/actor.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const children = (reference) => {
   }
 };
 
-const ignore = () => { };
+const ignore = () => {};
 
 const retry = async (assertion, remainingAttempts, retryInterval = 0) => {
   if (remainingAttempts <= 1) {
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ describe('ActorReference', function () {
   it('should have name, path, parent, properties', function () {
     let child = spawnStateless(system, ignore);
     let grandchild = spawnStateless(child, ignore);
+    console.error(child.parent);
     child.parent.should.equal(system);
     grandchild.parent.should.equal(child);
     child.name.should.be.a('string');