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Term 3 at Moore College

Tuesday, 26 July, 2005

College has begun again and somehow I've lost a couple of hours in the process. We don't do Cross-Cultural Communication this term because Mike Raiter is on leave. We have one less hour of Greek (which makes one teaching hour, one translation hour). Mission Foundations and Pastoral Ministry 1 have ended but we pick up Biblical Theology and Introduction to New Testament World (so looking forward to these lectures! We had a foretaste of them during Greek weeks). I am also not doing Preaching 1 because I figure I have enough subjects on my plate and Diploma students don't usually do it (though some have been granted exception). John Chapman takes that subject. I also don't do Philosophy 1 (not a Diploma subject). In case you are interested in what my load looks like (yes, I know I presume much!), it's this:

Plus 4 hrs of chapel/chaplaincy group and 1 hr of prayer group. Nice!

On the up side, I get to leave straight after lunch to go to work at Matthias which means I can get up to 4.5 hours in at the office instead of just 3 (much more productive; I rarely get things done at home). I also get a free hour on Wednesday afternoons to spend in the library before we have to go home. I hope I'll be able to use the time well and catch up on a lot of things.

I got my History of Christian Mission Primary Document assignment back the other day. It was on John Stott's Christian Mission in the Modern World (a book which came out of his address at Lausanne I in 1975) and I quoted an article about Lausanne 2004 by Mike Raiter from The Briefing. The thing is, Mike was the marker and he wrote in the margin:

If you're trying to impress the marker by quoting him positively ... you succeed!

I've decided to do my History of Christian Mission essay on Calvin and his missionary “secret agents”. I hope I'll unearth lots of interesting books on the subject. I know I should probably start this one early ...

Today we had an extremely interesting lecture by Mark Baddeley on Biblical Theology (or rather a collection of thoughts he'd put together, given that he was asked to give the lecture the day before) which I want to blog about but it's past 11 and I should get into good habits early in the term. If I never blog about it, it was very insightful (especially as Mark is a Queenslander and so views Sydney Anglicanism from outside) and helped answer the question of why I have been trained to read the Bible the way I do and why we tend to think that Biblical Theology is the right way of reading the Bible. (Maybe I should write this blog post in my free hour tomorrow ...)

Today I also got an SMS from Ben saying he was at Officeworks (buying a new hole punch; our old one quit) and asking if I wanted anything. “Love?” I replied. He sent back,

You can't buy that remember the beatles tried

Oops.

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