Lessons in the history of the church and the use of words

I am taking an evening lecture course in Twenty Centuries of Church History at the moment, at Moore Theological College, just because I have never specifically studied church history and have long been interested. We've only had one lecture so far, but so far so good. Archie Poulos is the lecturer, which is great. I don't think I have told blog world this yet, but when I first moved to Sydney I lived with Archie and Ainsley Poulos (and kids) for 10 months. Those were good times and I learnt a good many good things from talking to them and observing their lives.

I haven't decided whether I will take the assessments for this course or just audit it yet. Being the over-achiever that I am exams are stressful and it's a long time between doing them and sometimes it's good for me to just learn things and not concern myself with results. And the other very exciting thing is that I have been accepted into the Faithful Writers Masterclass, jointly run by Matthias Media and CASE, over a weekend in November, with Mark Tredinnick providing the teaching. I think this will be a fantastic opportunity to push me to write and to improve my writing - but at the same time I am feeling a little inept and wondering what I have let myself in for, spending two days with this man scrutinising my sentences before a small group of other creative people. So I really want to make the most of the occasion and the input!*

Should I choose to do the assessment for church history, for the essay we have to choose an epoch of history, and within that a person or event that was significant and write about why it was so. So, I have been thinking about who I might choose ...

It's good to have some interesting things going on, even though it ups the level of life activity a little.

*Apologies if I am being insensitive in announcing this. I have no idea who else or how many applied for this class.