Special Studies Week

We have just finished a great week at college. The idea is that all normal lectures stop and that the college has a week to get together in different, cross year groups and look at issues or engage in creative activities.

The second years spent some time looking at personality indicators: MBTI, Belbin, and Enneagram. Whatever your view of the foundations of these theories it was useful to think through some of the ways that our personalities affect the way in which we engage with each other and with God, especially given the ministerial contexts we are soon to be going into.

Creative things going on included silk painting, song writing, hand bell ringing, guitar workshops, photography, Powerpoint presentations, drama workshops, story telling ...

The whole college community spent Thursday morning hearing from four visiting speakers sharing their experiences in the current debates about human sexuality in the Anglican Communion. It was extremely valuable to hear these different perspectives presented in a open and frank discussion.

I spent a good chunk of my week organising and writing material for WordLive. Scripture Union offered the college the opportunity for us to prepare a week's worth of material for their web based Bible reading notes. If all goes to plan, the material we have prepared this week will go onto the site for a week in November.

A diverse, creative, and stimulating week. Now it's Reading Week, and I have two essays to write before they'll let me out of here.