I've been home now for eleven days. Eleven days of all the reading, knitting, cleaning and time wasting I can handle. I'm getting a little lonely. I kept myself fairly busy the first week I was home. I spent most of the week volunteering in my sister's first grade classroom. That was a joy. I helped the kids make ginger bread houses, paint and do math. I love kids. That's one of the only downsides to college, no kids (or dogs for that matter).
Although, as much as I whine about not having anybody to hang out with, this break has been a blessing. I've read a lot of really cool books so far. I started off with two my friend mike gave me.
The first book is called back to basics, it's about reformed theology. I've gotten into studying theology on my own lately. I feel like it's filling in the holes in my brain. But, then again in some ways it's not. I'm becoming increasingly aware of the fact the a lot of intellectual people interpret the bible differently, for very good intellectual reasons, which means there are some real smart people out there who are just plain wrong.
One of the biggest questions I've been wrestling with is "can women be pastors?". My entire life i've been told that they can't, that it's not biblical for a women to take authority over a man. The scripture's seem support this (1 Timothy 2:11-15, see http://www.gotquestions.org/women-pastors.html for an in depth explanation). However, there are people that claim that that passage was mistranslated by chauvinists and that in Greek the pronouns Paul used when describing qualifications for elders refer to both males and females.
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