***GEEK ALERT***
For those of you who, like I, enjoy Star Wars perhaps a little too much (don’t worry, your secret’s safe with me!), you might be interested in knowing that George Lucas has approved a Star Wars TV show that should premiere in May 2005. The article about this is here.
More Marching Band
In today’s issue of Sports Illustrated On Campus, there was an amusing article about great moments in band history. It was a true/false quiz (which was kind of annoying), but I have distilled the following list of humorous, true, band moments in history: 1941: The University of Chicago disbands its marching band–two years after having [...]
Ezekiel 33
Today, my Bible reading plan brought me to one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, Ezekiel 33. Here’s a quick run-down of why it is so meaningful to me. Verses 1-9: It is a challenging and sobering thought that we are responsible to communicate our knowledge of Christ with those who don’t know Him, [...]
DN Extravaganza
Some of the important news of the day from our beloved college newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan: Apparently, Rep. Tom Osborne (R-Neb) has switched houses in Congress to be in the Senate without my knowledge (is that even legal?). This is news to me, because I haven’t been paying attention to such things. Here’s the headline [...]
A more Orthodox Christianity?
Continuing my series of posts on Winner’s Girl Meets God, the next subject I would like to broach (and probably the last, unless I think of anything else) would be that of Orthodox Christianity. This is not so much in the sense of the principles contained in the Apostle’s Creed or the Nicene Creed, but [...]
Praise
Having written my earlier melancholy (but hopeful) post, things may be starting to look up. I just got an e-mail from a wonderful, faithful client of mine (for those of you who do not know, I am a parliamentarian–the information is a bit out of date on that web site, by the way), perhaps needing [...]
On Literature
Well, my faithful blog readers (i.e., those of you who have sloshed through some of my deeper, weighty, and just plain long posts, who are still reading my blog now), I am considering writing a novel. Now, don’t whisk away to Amazon.com just yet–I still have to actually get this future bestseller on paper (or, [...]
My date with a Messianic Jewess
I read Lauren F. Winner’s Girl Meets God this weekend. I loved her insights into the relationships between Judaism and Christianity. Her thoughts about politics challenged my conceptions of what a Christian should be. Also, she’s an extremely good writer, if you can stand memoirs. This probably won’t be an extremely long post, but I [...]
On faith
My life isn’t going very well right now. Starting a little over a week ago, things just haven’t moved as I would like them to. School seems to be piling up everything it has on me. I’m extraordinarily broke. Yesterday, I even had a little car trouble. As I was driving back to Lincoln from [...]
Update on the Policktical Fast
Per the advice of a member of this blog’s readership, I have been reading Girl Meets God, by Orthodox-Jew-turned-Christian Lauren F. Winner (this is a link to the original edition sold on Amazon.com and has better reader reviews, but the first edition-first print from which I am reading is full of typos). Once I am [...]
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