Wordpress

I've been using www.dawnrosalie.com to point to my blog for a while now, since Kevin graciously set me up a domain with GoDaddy. But it's time to move on into my 27th year (my favorite number, by the way, since I was 7) with a new look and a new home on the web.

So please update your bookmarks. The domain www.dawnrosalie.com should now take you to my blog hosted at dawnrosalie.wordpress.com but in case you're not using dawnrosalie as your bookmark, you can click on these links to take you there.

Let me know what you think about the new layout. :)

Does a black president signal the second coming?

What do you think about this? I'm not very political either way. I remain Republican because generally I'm for less government involvement (especially in the face of the failure of so many government programs to achieve what they hope to acheive). But I'm open to ideas from both sides.

And I'll admit - I was caught off guard a couple of months ago when I saw a sticker that said, got hope? and discovered it was selling Obama and not Jesus.

Que piensas?

Inspiration from the B side of Where the Light Is

No i'm not the one i used to be lately
See you met me at an interesting time
If my past is any sign of your future
You should be warned before i let you inside

Hold on to whatever you find baby
Hold on to whatever will get you through
Hold on to whatever you find baby
I don't trust myself with loving you

I will beg my way into your garden
I will break my way out when it rains
Just to get back to the place where i started
So i can watch you back all over again

Hold on to whatever you find baby
Hold on to whatever will get you through
Hold on to whatever you find baby
I don't trust myself with loving you

Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love me or the thought of me? me or the thought of me?

Hold on to whatever you find baby
Hold on to whatever will get you through
Hold on to whatever you find baby
I don't trust myself with loving you

Hold on to whatever you find baby
Hold on to whatever gets you through through
Hold on to whatever you find baby
I don't trust myself with loving you

the L word

I told him never to say it. But he broke the last rule.

And how anyone could've heard that and walked away....I just don't know, man...

I just don't know...

Go Deep and Go Wide

For my class this morning, I was assigned to read a book and then write a three page paper on it, summarizing the book for one page and then delving into one argument and discussing it for two pages.

One of the challenges in graduate study, apart from the requisite expectation of lack of sleep, is to broadly define and then specifically argue a topic. This often feels like an impossible task. How can I go so broad as to summarize a topic and then go so deep as to analyze it meaningfully? When you add in the third parameter of keeping all this to three short pages, I feel pressed from all sides.

How can I go deep while simulatenously going wide? And on top of all that, keep it short and concise? I have no answers today; just this one question I'm flinging out into the cosmic void.

That is all.

Christology and Soteriology

I'm taking a 2-week intensive for Systematic Theology 2: Christology and Soteriology with Veli-Matti Karkainnen. If those terms are foreign to you, join the club. They were foreign to me too. Essentially, Christology is the study of Jesus' "Messiah-ness" and Soteriology is the study of how we are saved or atoned for by Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. If that still doesn't make sense, you can rest assured that scholars are coming out with the Global Dictionary of Theology soon.

This might sound dry, because we have to delve into the nuances of penal substitution, but it's a plethora of fascination I'm swimming in compared to Systematics 1: Theology and Anthropology wherein I kid you not, I read an entire book exegeting ONE word's appearance in the NT.