This morning I arrived at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA for a two week summer program in queer theology and ethics. The course, starting Monday, is Queer Explorations for Pastoral, Theological and Ethical Issues. It's one of the courses required for ordination in MCC. Unlike most aspiring MCC clergy, I am taking this course before embarking on my M. Div. (which I hope to commence either this fall or next summer). It just happened to fit in nicely with my schedule this year, so I enrolled.
The course will be taught by leading queer theologians and spiritual leaders, including Bob Goss, Mona West, Nancy Wilson and Jim Mitulski. I'm really looking forward to it, although I must admit to some trepidation at having to complete the requirements for course credit.
The school is a few blocks from Harvard. The weather right now is miserable — cold, windy and wet — nothing at all like my last epxerience of New England in June a few years back, when the mercury was in the 90s! I have a huge room all to myself, but hardly a stick of furniture! I didn't really come prepared — now I have to find somewhere to collect a few essentials to make me feel at least a little comfortable the next two weeks (coffee, milk, dishes, etc). Oh well, with the weather shitty, no TV (seriously) and with only my laptop and BlackBerry to distract me, hopefully I'll get plenty of study done... I only have six books to read for class.
Tonight I'm meeting my friend Scott and his wife Kate for cocktails somewhere. No idea what I'll wear since everything in my suitcase is crumpled and I have no iron and no hangers...
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