Entries from October 2008

October 30, 2008

half-way through

The books on the left I’ve managed to read.  The one’s on the right, however . . . I’m workin’ on it.
My professors have tried to make me feel better about the reading load by telling me they could have assigned more.  Seriously?  Seriously.

October 18, 2008

Failblog.org

My classmate, Craig, told me that his students had really been enjoying this blog.  Check it out, it’s definitely good for a few laughs.
failblog.org

October 9, 2008

Hope

I have been reading The Healing Path by Dan Allender for my Intro to Counseling class.  The topic of hope has come up, and some of you know that hope is as much an area of interest for me as it is a challenge.  Allender has come up with a definition of hope that resonates with the tension [...]

October 7, 2008

The Bible makes me nauseous

So, for my Old Testament History and Theology class, I get to read the entire OT in a semester.  That means I have had to read 10-20 chapters per day.  Today I am in Leviticus.  I got to chapter 13, about leprosy and other skin diseases.  I had to skim.  I had to skim 2 [...]