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Moore Tidbits

Friday, 11 March, 2005

(When you go to a college with such a name, how can you not help but pun?)

• Primary Document is now submitted. The most annoying part was the word count (need to exclude bibiography, references, heading, title page but include all footnotes). Thank you for reading and putting up with my writer's block.
• We are at the end of our second week at Moore. Great Moments include:
  • My dramatic rendition of Mark 1:1 on Monday with party poppers.
  • New Testament 1 lecture on Monday (Reading Mark as story—narrative criticism and how it can help you read the Bible).
  • Mission Foundations lecture on Tuesday (Did the Israelites have a sense of mission in the OT and was it centripetal or centrifugal?).
  • Doctrine lecture on Wednesday (It is not so much important that we know God but rather that God knows us; for that, we can be so thankful! The theme of knowing God seen in Genesis and Exodus.)
  • Old Testament 1 lecture on Thursday (The Torah: its organisation and thematic coherence).
  • History of Christian Mission lecture today (The early church: the ascetes and the rise of monaticism [ie. stories about some very strange monks].)
  • (and all my other subjects which I haven't mentioned but which are also excellent and stimulating—yes, even Greek [and ESPECIALLY Cross-Cultural Communication which is definitely worth blogging about if I ever get the chance] .)

• Discovered yesterday that Moore requires us to do compulsory Bible readings and that Genesis and 1 and 2 Timothy were due today. Luckily they're pretty flexible—they're more concerned that it's done by the end of the year and the due dates are just a guide. The idea is that you are supposed to have read the entire Bible at the end of your three years at Moore college (given that the standard degree is three years). I can't help thinking that this will infiltrate my regular morning Bible reading and got a bit resentful of Moore taking over all aspects of my life. But I am looking forward to re-reading Genesis in one sitting—it's part of the set readings for Old Testament 1 anyway and I thought I would do it this time in the New American Standard Bible (bought a copy this afternoon—why are the smaller Bibles so much more expensive??) I remember when I first read Genesis in the King James: it just came alive for me and I could really see the enormity of what God was asking Abraham in Chapter 12 (“Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee ...”)
• I still have to write a profile on a 2nd year student who is married for Societas by next Friday. It has to be 500 words long (way too short for a decent interview) and it can be in whatever form I wish. I have my target, just need to formulate some decent questions.
• Even though I am on the Societas committee, I have been roped in to play for MAC chapel and to sing at joint chapel on Wednesday (and didn't George Athas preach a fabulous sermon on Ephesians 2 this week!)
• First MAC chapel this week—odd to sing without hearing male voices.
• Ben was sick today so I drove to and from college alone and emerged feeling smug because I'd managed to handle Sydney traffic.
• Adore hearing John Woodhouse preach on 1 Samuel (basically recycling a lot of his MYC material from 2003)—so helpful for understanding more of the history of Israel. I really like sermons on narrative—would like to hear more.
• How good is Innervisions by Stevie Wonder!
• Day off tomorrow—YAY!!

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