Glen Smallman

Hi, I'm Glen. These thumbnail summaries selling myself are difficult for me, but here goes nothing...

I grew up in the Bay Area, and would now consider myself then generally as a religious pluralist, who figured your truth was your truth, and every religion basically led to God. I met Jesus when I was in high school and have since seen him as humanity's hope and source of redemption.

I did my undergrad in film, a topic and a medium which I enjoy very much.

I spent a number of years at Hume Lake Christian Camps, in both the media department cutting footage and in the program department working with youth pastors and students.

I'm a student currently at Talbot School of Theology, persuing a degree in New Testament. My two greatest hopes are to be able to make practical the lofty ideas we students like to hoard in ivory towers; and to see said theology not as an academic exercise, but as means of better knowing and living for God.

I like people, stories, film, radio, television, reading, conversations, Internet meme, social media, culture (popular and otherwise), Lost, In-n-Out and food trucks.

You may contact me at glen [at] someonetellmethestory [dot] com. I'd love to hear from you any comments, questions, concerns or humorous anecdotes you may have.

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Andrew Can’t Post Videos from his Computer…

Posted by on September 22, 2011  

…so sometimes he has me do it. It’s weird, I know, but for whatever reason we post the very same code, and nothing comes out for him. Anywho, this video is rad and he wanted you to see it. I do too. There’s something about good art which allows you to suspend disbelief and see [...]

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Way of the Donkey: An Interview with Ken Way, author of Donkeys in the Biblical World – Part 2

Posted by on September 22, 2011  

I thought about calling these interviews, “Everything You Wanted to Know about Donkeys but Never Would Have Thought to Ask” — but it was too long and a nice pun won the day. We conclude with Dr. Ken Way, Talbot Old Testament professor, with some more practical questions. If you missed yesterday’s post, please go [...]

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Way of the Donkey: An Interview with Ken Way, author of Donkeys in the Biblical World – Part 1

Posted by on September 21, 2011  

I had the fortune of interviewing Dr. Ken Way, Old Testament Professor at Talbot School of Theology about his recent book, Donkeys in the Biblical World: Ceremony and Symbol, a book about… well, donkeys in the Biblical world. I’ll let him speak to the book more specifically, but I had the fortune of taking Dr. [...]

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Sung in Jest

Posted by on September 20, 2011  

Newest Decemberists video, based on a scene out of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. File Under: It’s the end of the playground as we know it… I feel fine.

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Sherlock, Homes…

Posted by on September 13, 2011  

File Under: Downey Jr. eat your heart out.

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Wilco covers… Black Eyed Peas?

Posted by on September 12, 2011  

I don’t even have categories for this. HT: @FredFredSanders File Under: Next up, The Decemberists covering Britney Spears.

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Truly

Posted by on September 9, 2011  

My dear friend, Travis Oberg, plays a new song from the road.

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Athanasius vs. Grammar

Posted by on September 8, 2011  

…those, however, who accept everything else that was defined at Nicea, and doubt only about the [word] “Homoousios”, must not be treated as enemies; nor do we here attack them as Ario-maniacs, nor as opponents of the Fathers, but we discuss the matter with them as brothers with brothers, who mean what we mean, and [...]

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Of Athanasius and Sensibility

Posted by on September 7, 2011  

Athanasius, who eventually became bishop of Alexandria, but who would also be exiled five times for his defense of Jesus’ divinity, did not consider Arius’s arguments as philosophical curiosities. Rather, he viewed them as daggers aimed at the very heart of the Christian message. His memorable treatise De Incarnatione (Of the incarnation) was written early [...]

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Search Your Feelings, You Know it’s Cute

Posted by on August 27, 2011  

Nothing like a good kitten/Jedi mashup to start your Sunday. HT: @damonlindeloff UPDATE –File Under: Someties you hit the button to post tomorrow, but then you realize later that you really hit the button to post today. So happy Sunday, one day early.

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