http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/ en-us 2009-12-01T14:50:46-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006541.html This is rather a long excerpt for me, but I started transcribing and just couldn't stop . . . really good stuff. This is roughly the final quarter of a chapter from the case studies section (part IV) of another... Soapboxes Jared 2009-12-01T14:50:46-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006538.html The new reality Jesus proclaimed was nonviolent. That much is clear, not just from the Sermon on the Mount, but from his entire life and teaching and, above all, the way he faced his death at the hands of the... Soapboxes Jared 2009-11-12T22:40:08-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006537.html I literally cannot believe that it has been a month since my last post. I'm still doing the same things as before. Nothing stands out as worth the effort to chronicle in extreme detail . . . Well, it does,... Life Jared 2009-10-31T23:59:35-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006528.html So lack of time and general laziness have prompted me to substitute a link on Facebook for more substantial blogging here. As a result, my poor blog is looking a bit abandoned. It's not that I have nothing to say.... Life Jared 2009-09-30T18:55:52-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006513.html I've been thinking about posting a few words related to healthcare, but then Scholl cornered that market for the time being and this video crossed my path. It's 15 minutes long, but that's pretty short for a documentary, and it's... Quickies Jared 2009-08-05T23:29:11-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006509.html Some that I know enfold belief in warm Embrace, like an over-stuffed teddy bear; Recline there comfortable and free from harm, As though faith were a harbor, safe; secure From fear or questions, shallow source of joy. A relic from... Scribbles Jared 2009-07-03T12:00:01-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006508.html I got the latest issue of LeTourneau's in-house news magazine in the mail yesterday, and found it fuller than usual of interesting tidbits. Among those was a blurb that mentioned that Dr. Jarstfer, who is a biology professor and serves... Soapboxes Jared 2009-06-23T19:15:03-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006507.html Garrison Keillor once remarked: "If you can't go to church and, for at least a moment, be given transcendence; if you can't go to church and pass briefly from this life into the next; then I can't see why anyone... Quickies Jared 2009-06-20T14:42:10-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006505.html In casting my mind around for works of various art forms that have and do inspire and inform my own faith, it immediately occurred to me that I know some forms better than others. Narrative art forms have always had... Observations Jared 2009-06-15T02:21:01-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006504.html I'm not sure what this post is about, or how to go about ordering my thoughts into something that looks more like a blogpost with something to say than a canoe ride in my stream of consciousness. Sometimes, though, it... Observations Jared 2009-06-11T13:53:29-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006495.html I'm not sure what the tone of this post will be. I'm feeling a bit babbly right now. My spring semester, and first year of grad school, officially ended on Saturday morning at 6:30am when I sent in my final... Life Jared 2009-05-12T17:05:00-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006493.html Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable' My sincere, half-hearted apologies to all of my Trekkie friends.... Quickies Jared 2009-05-08T01:55:32-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006488.html The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cThe Word - Stressed Positioncolbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorGay Marriage Commercial I never thought that we would actually do anything about Bush and the war crimes perpetrated under his administration . . .... Quickies Jared 2009-04-22T14:33:32-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006476.html Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport I The Onion.... Quickies Jared 2009-04-01T15:20:06-06:00 http://www.shadowcouncil.org/todostienen/archives/006470.html Ludwig Feuerbach says a wonderful thing about baptism. I have it marked. He says, "Water is the purest, clearest of liquids; in virtue of this its natural character it is the image of the spotless nature of the Divine Spirit.... Quickies Jared 2009-03-22T23:17:43-06:00