So the last several days have involved lots of "Law" readings from the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures): as in "thou shalt die if thou dost not believe, and the unbelievers will die by the sword, death death death, yay!" It's been getting awfully frustrating. And in classes everybody and their brother is talking about the three uses of the Law ( Read more... )

Well, I'm registered for next year and CPE and all, and have my preference down for Geneva for JTerm. I'm also working on switching advisors so my thesis advisor is my academic advisor as well, which will make everything easier. Especially since while I like my current advisor, we're really bad at being able to find each other to get paperwork ( Read more... )

Well, the news this morning certainly includes its fair share of death, death, and oh yes, more worldwide death. Osama bin Laden, not satisfied with the amount of death in the headlines these days, has ordered his followers to kill those responsible for the Danish cartoons that are surely old news by now. I'd like to think that he's just behind ( Read more... )

All right, so I will be the first to admit that the issue of immigration has recently become so over-discussed by the media that it's really impossible to follow all of it. I do not claim to know everything about it ( Read more... )

Try listening to a historian try to explain the ontological argument for the existence of God. Don't get me wrong, I like my advisor, and she's great in her field, but ouch ( Read more... )

Well, it's been quite a morning so far. Started out with an hour with Marty Haugen in the chapel, w/piano and wonderful acoustics. Apparently he and my prof have worked together a lot and are good friends, he does the music, she does the text. We got some free music out of the deal, and he made some good points about the three stages of church ( Read more... )

Well, Indonesia's presidential team seems to be trying to bring about the end of the world. Yesterday Reuters quoted the President saying that the media should learn from the riots over the Danish cartoons that free press doesn't extend to everything. Now mind you, he also stated that, "No matter the faith, we have to respect it" and I can agree ( Read more... )

Okay, so this isn't so much about updating than it is about testing my new software, which allows me to "update" my LJ directly from my Palm w/o dealing with copy/paste-ing from my memo program. This does it automatically, including time that this was originally typed at, and I can set it up to put in the mood and music stuff and choose the icon ( Read more... )