On the Friday Waterloo project finished, fellow staff member Silas and I headed to Hamilton, spent the night here, then to his place for Saturday night. It was a nice relaxing weekend. On Sunday we flew out here to Colorado. We arranged it so that we had the same flights, definitely nicer than traveling alone.

On Monday we started classes. I'm taking two classes for these first two weeks: Introduction to Christian Theology, and Bible Study Methods.

Intro to Theology covers the major theological issues from a high-level vantage point -- things like the Trinity, inerrancy of the Bible, etc. The lecturer also happens to be the author of the textbooks (Alan Scholes -- What Christianity is All About).

Bible Study Methods is teaching us techniques for how to study the Bible. All of the assignments revolve around Ephesians. Unlike the Theology course, there's less lecturing but instead we have small groups where we focus on assignments.

It's a unique environment of academia and faith. In between the two lectures, one time this week they actually did some praise and worship songs. In our small groups, we discuss one chapter of Seeing and Savoring Christ before doing anything else.

Unfortunately, I've been hit by either dehydration and/or altitude sickness and/or heat-stroke and/or jet-lag type symptoms, which has made it hard to do much other than try to keep up on the assignments and readings as best I can. Overall though, I'm enjoying the content of the assignments quite a lot, and hopefully things will continue to improve on the health side of things.