About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series The following is the first post of a series I’m calling, “What I Read in Seminary”. I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read.

Check out this 25-part women’s Bible study on the Epistle to the Hebrew led by President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Dr. Michael J. Kruger. The study is a video series and even has study notes available for download. https://rts.edu/hebrews/

Smartphones take away time. Sure, they save tons of time, can be quite efficient, and have loads of utility. But I didn’t like how I was sucked into its usage. Social media was the tipping point. I found myself wasting away time and more time. Besides all the hoopla going on with big tech companies nowadays, and my general aversion to them given my time with Linux and working in the technology sector for a couple years, I wanted to get a foot out the door of all the modernization.

Euangelion I wanted a way to be able to send command line (CLI) output to myself through an encrypted email. I looked to Python for ease of programming, relearning what I had first practiced my freshman year of college. I wrote the original version nearly a year ago today and have updated it to try to implement a more standard project layout. The original program was contained in three files, while the current version is held in two files, one for install, one for emailing.

Woe to humanity! Conversation is fallen! Mighty were its walls— as a storm smothers sunlight so the siege darkened our speech and mounted in gusting winds Woe to the dinner table! For I was young in my days when the army amassed on the seams of sky and land— in a rush and in a charge they surged with flashing, bright colors from an Ethernet port bombarding us with advertisers’ catchy jingles and snappy slogans!

Image Source: Pixabay See the salt-rotten posts resting The dock’s not level the east corner sank some time ago; the upheaved boards and nails rusted and crooked See how the posts were chewed away cracked with running splits, worn by fish needing toothpicks stained green by algae See the wading posts beaten by waves, The dock still stands, but when will someone come for repairs?

Today, I bumped into an issue of undesired keyboard behavior. Long ago I discovered the joys of the Compose Key, and within the past month I had to set up keyboards for languages besides English, as well as setting up IBus in order to have access to the full range of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters (although I’m pretty sure I still don’t have this functionality truly working). Besides these things, I thought I would never have to touch my keyboard layout again.

From lift off and burning thoughts Through the clouds the plane turned down the cabby weaved and rolled from the outskirts to hotels downtown The destination—its streets, its corners, its patrons, its vices, its affairs—seasoned the food and I wrestled to keep my dinner down The neons flashed: bleeping, burning tubes that great swarm danced, circling their doom bypassing street performers and beholder traps strolling up the side walks in strides, buzzing around the electrocutioner, watching the lights on and off and on and off and on and off I tossed and I turned, I looked— double take: one beer down, two beers down the next poured, and again Cherries and golden sevens stream around Twenty five dollars down The horse hooves pound round Cigars burning down Round the turn they come Across the finish line Twenty five dollars down Was it whiskey poured and downed while fruitless politics hammered away as the men lounged, boasting unchallenged complaints?

When I began 3D printing, I watched instructional and introductory videos to tell me more about the process, the art, the product, the machine, and the rest of the lot. The videos often included time lapses of the featured print and I thought it would be a perfect addition to Redemption Studio. When I published A Dice Tower Gift, Part Two, I mentioned I would provide the scripts I wrote in order to produce the videos. All in all, I constructed six scripts which I used to learn FFMPEG, Montage, and several other programs, not to mention Bash’s getopts, data validation, arrays and more. It felt rewarding by the end of the process! Those scripts are provided in the Bash Scripts downloads.

The brown barked woods in columns rose, covered in summer’s sheath the tired path had captured dust and pebble. With striding lips I sang a merry tune under the coming blue twilight— the dawn’s veil whose rivers bent and bowed across the sky’s depths. Slowing to a stand at a peculiar architecture, this chorus man’s tongue stuttered with my boot steps at this sight unseen during journeys before, pond’ring my soles shuffled, for neither sawdust nor stump waited to be remembered.

Image Source: Pixabay "Peter, we know full well of denial." –The Difficulty, “We Are Not” Two voices call to me, I’m caught between two lays of sweeping sand, hills behind call me back, away, and hills ahead urge me forward. “Wake, my Seedling, chosen to be. Gently contoured, lavished with dirt; Hear rain rap trickling caresses.” “Child World, come and dance, come and flee. Come, Child World, witness, play, believe.