Just Some Details

So it's Saturday morning (or afternoon?  It's 12:42).  I just woke up not too long ago, after 10 1/2 or 11 hours of sleep.  Amazing.  I am looking out the window and watching our undefeated girls lacrosse team take on what looks like Texas A&M.  If it isn't A&M, its definitely UT (they play both teams today). 

 

Last night Jenny and I went to Swing Bums with Josh and Melissa, where we learned to lindy-hop.  Pretty fun.  Then the four of us went to Main Street Pizza (seriously, you can't possible go wrong with Main Street, ever).  After that Jenny and I finished watching the last 30 minutes of "Finding Neverland."  What an amazing movie; what an amazing story!!  Everyone should see it--but be warned, its a tear-jerker (Jenny definitely cried a little). 

 

Today I'm going to the Poteet Strawberry Festival with the Ropers.  We're performing twice--at 6pm and 7:30pm.  Everyone should come, it promises to be a good time.  Whether or not I'l have the waltz down by then is a different question.  I suppose we'll find out. 

 

I stopped by Dr. Pinnock's office yesterday to talk a little about post-liberal theology.  I take Contemporary Religious Thought from her, and she's the closes thing we have to a theologian in our department.  We talked some about the Yale School (in the 80's many of the "post-liberal" theologians were at Yale, so that line of thought became known as the Tale School).  We both ranted a little bit about evangelicalism, and I told her about my love-hate relationship with evanelicalism.  She told me a little bit about her dad's recent work (he's a super famous theologian, best known for his work on the openness of God theory).  I told her about my reformed beliefs and my current infatuation with Barth and my current disgust with modern apologetics.  I asked her about graduate schools that were quite Barthian, and she recommended Yale and then Princeton Theological.  Especially Yale (where she did her PhD).  I don't know that I could get into Yale, at least not without a Masters first, but that's definitely been either my first choice or one of my first choice grad schools for a long time.  Current schools I'm researching (because I know you're interested): Harvard, Harvard Divinity (like I'd get in there), Boston College, Boston University, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Union Theological, Princeton, Princeton Theological, UVA, maybe Brown.  I suppose I should hve one or two safety-school types (these are all either stretches or good fits), but it's not really very easy when you're looking at grad school in religion.  Outside of semninaries, there are really only 30 or 35 programs.  And the humanities job market is really tight...everyone who gets hired pretty much went to the same 8 or 10 schools.  What a career path I've chosen.  But honestly, I can't imagine myself doing anything else.  Seriously, what else could anyone possibly see me doing?  Maybe I'll write a book about religion in some way, get it published, and then I'll get into a school like Yale despite me "eh" GPA.

 

Until next time, grace and peace.

Mike