📺 Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature RLST 152 – Lecture 2 – From Stories to Canon | Open Yale Courses

Watched Lecture 2 From Stories to Canon by Dale B. Martin from RLST 152: Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature

The Christian faith is based upon a canon of texts considered to be holy scripture. How did this canon come to be? Different factors, such as competing schools of doctrine, growing consensus, and the invention of the codex, helped shape the canon of the New Testament. Reasons for inclusion in or exclusion from the canon included apostolic authority, general acceptance, and theological appropriateness for “proto-orthodox” Christianity.

📺 Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature RLST 152 – Lecture 1 – Introduction: Why Study the New Testament? | Open Yale Courses

Watched Lecture 1 Introduction: Why Study the New Testament? by Dale B. Martin from RLST 152: Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature

This course approaches the New Testament not as scripture, or a piece of authoritative holy writing, but as a collection of historical documents. Therefore, students are urged to leave behind their pre-conceived notions of the New Testament and read it as if they had never heard of it before. This involves understanding the historical context of the New Testament and imagining how it might appear to an ancient person.

Some interesting questions about what is in and what isn’t in the Bible here. I love that he does the exercise of what early Christianity meetings would have looked like to a person of that time period.

📺 Chicken from Paris to the Middle East | Milk Street

Watched Chicken from Paris to the Middle East from Milk Street

In this episode, we learn how to elevate simple chicken recipes by using techniques and flavors from around the world. Milk Street Cook Matthew Card shows Christopher Kimball the best technique to spatchcock a chicken. Nimco Mahamud-Hassan stops by Milk Street to teach us how to make chicken soup the Somali way—layering flavors, textures and colors. Later, Matthew shows Chris an easy recipe for Za'atar-Roasted Chicken, and finally, we borrow a technique from France to make Chicken en Cocotte with Milk Street Cook Catherine Smart.

📺 "The West Wing" The Black Vera Wang | Netflix

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Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. The President and Leo deal with reports of a planned terrorist attack, but more shocking is who is behind it. Sam receives an anonymous package with bad implications for the campaign. C.J. chafes under her Secret Service protection.

📺 "The West Wing" Enemies Foreign and Domestic | Netflix

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Directed by Alex Graves. With Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. A meeting with the new Russian president becomes politically dangerous when surveillance photos show Russia building a nuclear reactor in Iran. C.J. is assigned Secret Service protection after receiving death threats.

📺 The West Wing Documentary Special | Netflix

Watched The West Wing Documentary Special from Netflix
Directed by Bill Couturié. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. Celebrating the people of the real West Wing, this documentary features interviews with former Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger, and more than a dozen White House aides, chiefs of staff, and press secretaries.

📺 “The West Wing” Stirred | Netflix

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Directed by Jeremy Kagan. With Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. On a typical night in the west wing, Sam returns from a hockey game and Josh asks him to meet with V.P. Hoynes about saving an education bill. Back at the W.H., Josh, Toby, Leo, C.J., Larry and Ed all meet about the prospect of replacing Hoynes on the ticket in the next campaign. Bartlet helps Charlie do his federal taxes, and while both think Charlie should expect a refund, thanks to last year's...

📺 “The West Wing” The U.S. Poet Laureate | Netflix

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Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. Poet laureate Tabitha Fortis visits D.C. to attend a White House dinner in her honor, and Toby develops a bit of a crush on her, but he also must admonish the somewhat flighty beauty against publicly criticizing the president for his refusal to sign an international anti-land mine treaty; Donna discovers a website devoted to Josh, and he soon becomes sucked into the online chat about his ...

📺 “The West Wing” Dead Irish Writers | Netflix

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Directed by Alex Graves. With Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney. Another lively episode centered around a lavish W.H. party, this one for Abbey's birthday the night before a N.H. medical board begins hearings on whether to suspend her license over her secret treatment of her husband's MS. Abbey repairs to the residence with C.J. and Amy Gardener to get blitzed on wine and discuss her concerns about her medical career. Donna is restricted from joining the party...

📺 “The West Wing” Hartsfield’s Landing | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" Hartsfield's Landing from Netflix
Directed by Vincent Misiano. With Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. A fictitious small town in N.H. is the site of the first presidential primary vote, and the results from Hartsfield's Landing, announced at 12:07 a.m., will dominate the news all day until the final tally, so Josh wants favorable press for the president, prompting to ask Donna to persuade a local couple she knows to reconsider their vote. Elsewhere, Bartlet has just returned from India with a ...

📺 “The West Wing” The Two Bartlets | Netflix

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Directed by Alex Graves. With Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney. Toby is concerned when President Bartlett forgoes an opportunity to speak out in favor of affirmative action during the Iowa caucuses and confronts the President on the real reasons underlying his Dr. Jekyl & Uncle Fluffy personality shifts. Meanwhile Josh makes plans for a vacation with Amy and then must cancel them.

📺 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Datalore | Netflix

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Directed by Rob Bowman. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby. The Enterprise visits the planet where Data was created and discovers another android like him, but when he's assembled, he's not EXACTLY like him.
The music in the first season is so bizarre. It feels like they’re trying to do a bad emulation of the soundtrack of Blade Runner.

📺 Dumplin’ (2018) | Netflix

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Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Danielle Macdonald, Jennifer Aniston, Odeya Rush, Maddie Baillio. Willowdean ('Dumplin'), the plus-size teenage daughter of a former beauty queen, signs up for her mom's Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow her footsteps, revolutionizing the pageant and their small Texas town.
Such a sweet little movie.