2008-10-06 - 9:28 p.m.
I've been thinking about it, and it seems like I only update this thing around the beginning of a new week. I guess the reason for this (if anyone was wondering) is because I don't do much during the week worth writing about. I mean, I don't on the weekends really either, but it's better than my weeks, which are blurs of class, homework, and thinking about homework.
Don't get the impression that I don't like it, or that it's horrible. Everything is really interesting. I've sort of been waiting for seminary since high school, and I had the (possibly misguided) view in my undergrad that it was simply a necessary step towards seminary. I think I missed out on a lot by viewing it that way, and it certainly didn't encourage me to really work very hard.
Anyway, all thats in the past now, and I'm here and loving it. There is lots of reading, and the thing that I've noticed is that you don't actually have to do the reading for the classes - but I find that I want to. A prime example: Liturgical Studies this week. We are looking at Baptism tomorrow, and I know from experience that I could get by without doing the reading. But why wouldn't I? Who wouldn't want to know more about baptism. It's really interesting. I read all about the history of it, and the disagreement in the contemporary church between infant baptizers (which is somewhat disturbingly referred to as "pedobaptism) and those who practice adult baptism. I had never even thought about how the two groups have a fundamentally different view of what baptism is! If it is a sign of God's grace and love, then pedobaptism is the way to go- bring people into the community early, and teach them often about God. If it is an integral part of salvation, then it should only be undertaken by those who understand exactly what they are doing- which excludes most infants.
Anyway, it's obviously deeper and more complicated than that short summary- and I can't wait to discuss it in class tomorrow.
It was a good weekend though. I got quite a bit of reading done for my Eucharist paper, and I think I'm beginning to have an idea of what I'll say. I think.
I also managed to get off campus twice, which I think is a record. Saturday night was supper with Ashley, who is an old friend from my Resident Advisor days at UVic. We had Caribbean food, and then I got to look at the pictures of her Europe trip (and she had to sit through innumerable stories of my Europe trip!).
Sunday my friends Sherri and Amos were in town from Victoria, so I managed to meet them for lunch. We found, quite by accident, a really good Italian place close to campus. I've mentally filed it away in my very thin file of 'Restaurants in Vancouver'.
