Well, in the words of Homer Simpson – “my brain hurts“. I’ve spent the whole day at the induction for the Master of Arts in Church Practice – the course I’m starting at Tabor. Although I won’t actually be spending any time on campus, it’s much too cool a course for crazy things like actually attending the college. For more about the course, either go to the Tabor site. I’m too lazy to re-explain.

It’s going to be pretty full-on. There’s some pretty bright people doing it, and there’ll be a fair bit of work in it – but I really do love the whole emphasis of the course – “theology in context as it relates to the local church”. Can’t think of any better way to approach bible college type study. And I’m still equally enthusiatic (well, proabbly even more enthusiatic) having met the people I’ll be doing it with.

There was an interesting thought brought up, and my mind is still trying to wrap itself around all that we were chatting about. But this stood out: that our theology needs to be considered against the context it is in; in light of our own experiences and the church tradition. So we don’t do theology in a vaccuum, but instead have to consider any questions against what we have done in the past: filtering out the non-essentials and keeping the quality, and  recognising that the needs of today are not the needs of yesterday.

I think I’ll need an early night tonight – to cope with the expansion of my brain.