Welcome to The Thread, Volume 2, Issue 1!

The Thread is the semiannual/semesterly newsletter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society (JRCLS) student chapters. This is its second year in operation and its first year in blog format. The blog format makes this less of a newsletter and more of a blogletter, newsblog, a blegger, a nslog. Something. Anyway. It's a result of the student chapters' efforts to switch from static internet content to a more dynamic online community. (More info coming about that in future months.) (One could argue that it is also a result of the depreciation in website savvy between this and last year's The Thread committee. One might be right.)

This blog version may be a place holder, a precursor to bigger and better things, but it's here now, for the moment, and you are welcome to come, read, peruse, and comment.

This issue of The Thread contains the following:

• Meet the SCB!
• The Chair's Message: "Religious Conviction Strengthening the Law: The Example of James E. Faust" by Matt Squires (NYU)
  
• The Spiritual Thought: "Learning Empathy and Compassion in the Legal Profession" by Peter Robison (Vanderbilt)
  
• Fall 2007 Student Chapter Updates

Feel free to read and scroll, post and question.

Have ideas for things we can/should add to the blog? Email jrclsthread@gmail.com.

Want to relive the glory days of last year's The Thread? Visit http://www.jrclsconference.com/thread/vol1issue2.php and http://www.jrclsconference.com/thread/vol1issue1.php.

Want to find out info about this year's national JRCLS conference? Visit http://www.jrclsconference.com/ and get excited for a weekend in the February Arizona sun. (Or indoors underneath roofs in the February Arizona sun.)

Come explore The Thread. And then contribute. Put the I back in contribute. (Or the U/you?) In any case. Read. It's some good stuff.