{"id":1532,"date":"2006-01-19T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/01\/19\/classes-begin\/"},"modified":"2006-01-19T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T03:27:00","slug":"classes-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/01\/19\/classes-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What?  Didn&#8217;t school get going last August?<\/p>\n<p>Well, for a lot of people, yes, but not for Orin.  He began on Tuesday his pursuit of a Masters Degree in Theology (litugical focus) at <a href=\"http:\/\/ai.edu\">Aquinas institute of Theology<\/a> in St. Louis, near Saint Louis University.<\/p>\n<p>This semester his three classes are: 1) Intro to Theology and Theological Method, 2) Foundations of Moral Theology, and 3) History of the Church II (Reformation to Present)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know, how exciting can it get!  But my first micro-paper is already due Tuesday.  Worry not, it was an easy one: what is the <i>context<\/i> of your theological studies: questions, experiences, etc.  A lot of what Oddwalk does is sharing these questions and experiences with young people &#8211; my first paper is essentially a weightier version of a story you all may have heard me tell: 4-year old Orin goes into his backyard to say &#8220;Here I am, Lord!&#8221;  I may post it here eventaully.<\/p>\n<p>Prayers are accepted during this time, as I also have full-time Shrine work, Oddwalk appearances, Chamber Chorus, Archdio Chorus, Shaare Emeth Services (how many of you knew I was plaing at a Jewish Temple now too)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It should be about 13-14 classes for my degree, hopefully in 3 years or less.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to deepeing my faith and its understanding and practices, and hopefully sharing a bit of that with you, in a more down-to-earth style.<\/p>\n<p>-Orin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">What? Didn&#8217;t school get going last August? Well, for a lot of people, yes, but not for Orin. He began on Tuesday his pursuit of a Masters Degree in Theology (litugical focus) at Aquinas institute of Theology in St. Louis, near Saint Louis University. This semester his three classes are: 1) Intro to Theology and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/01\/19\/classes-begin\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}