It's Time to Dance!

I have the most wonderful news! Briercrest is now offering a new degree in the Seminary, and it makes my spine tingle. What is it, you ask?

MA Biblical Languages and Exegesis
Download the program sheet. Do it.

Let the heavens rejoice!
Let the students be glad (and enroll)!

The Importance of Syllabi

I'm in the last week of preparation before my first Seminary class begins, and I just realized that I have become far too prepared... Part of the requirements of the upcoming class on the Gospels is to lead an hour-long seminar on one of the various topics given in the syllabus. Over the past several days, I dug (hundreds of pages) deep into all sorts of secondary sources to get to know my topic (reader-response criticism) very well, only to find out that the one most important source I should have read was: my syllabus.

If I had started there, I would have learned that the seminar is to be based mostly on the three articles for the seminar topic in the required reading. It's not exactly an 'open-ended' assignment. So, I guess this will be much easier to prepare for than I anticipated... At any rate, I guess I'll be (overly) prepared if people have questions outside of what the syllabus requires!

Seminoid

I'm in! This morning I received my confirmation email telling me I'm an official seminary student. Good news to receive on the day I found out that I can have the week off of work to take Wes Olmstead's Gospels class. Full steam ahead!

Official Things

Today two good and official things happened that spur on my plans for the next little while. My passport arrived, which allows me to go to the US, which allows me to attend the Wheaton Theological Conference in under a month. Secondly, I completed my application to Briercrest Seminary. I'm hoping to start my seminary studies with Wes Olmstead's Gospels Seminar, which kicks off May 31. It's nice to have these important details down. Now I can just focus on getting the necessary reading done.