School Days

As promised, here is a little school update for you. We finished up classes about a week ago. I now have a couple of weeks before I begin my summer CPE at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois. [Berwyn is just west of the city] I meant to put up some stuff about all of my spring semester classes a lot sooner, but I guess its better nate than lever.

• Lutheran Confessional Heritage - In this course we basically went through the Book of Concord. For this course I had to write a reflection on confessional subscription. (At ordination you have to say you're gonna preach and teach inline with the confessions.) We also had a big project. I wrote a theme study guide comparing Liberation Theology and the Confessions on Justification.
  
• Jesus & the Gospels - Surprisingly enough, this course focused on Jesus and the gospels. We wrote two text analysis. I did one on the healing of the paralytic in Matthew 9 and one on the annointing of Jesus in John 12. For my big final paper I wrote about how forgiveness in the healing of the paralytic is indicative of forgiveness throughout Matthew.
• Pastoral Care - This course was a course to prepare you for CPE. We looked at a wide variety of pastoral care issues. We also practiced lots of empathetic listening.
  
• Teaching Ministry - In this course we looked at the many ways that the church teaches. We looked at stuff like Sunday School, but we also looked at how the church teaches through everything it does.
  

Here at LSTC you have to accumulate five growth in faith credits before you can graduate. One way you can earn credit is through classes. This semester I took Biblical Spirituality. We looked at the great variety of spiritualities present in the bible and compared them with our own spiritualities and experiences.

Here are some pictures of Hannah's new library, White Sox/Yankee's game with free tickets, and the Moo & Oink.