Inspired by Greg Lee and mdae possible by the generosity of Crossroads, I'm going to take a sabbatical from 4th November to 17th January.
Here's a video about sabbaticals from a non-Christian pov:
(H/T Gordo)
What am I going to do? Here are some of my thoughts and plans:
Recreational
- Go camping with the family, possibly at Freycinet.
- Go to Strahan for a couple of days. I love the West Coast of Tassie, especially the mountainous mining moonscape and gravel footy oval of Queenstown.
- Learn to fish/squid. I like the idea of fishing in the zombie-shanty-town Lakes District of Tassie.
- Go for lots of bike rides.
- Go to the PCYC gym.
- Write some short stories. Maybe start another novel.
- Cook things, including fish.
- Help Nikki in the garden.
- Watch a lot of boxed sets.
- Read all the books that jml keeps telling me I need to read: Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, House of Leaves and Notre Dame De Paris.
- Do some Tai Chi exercises, without the Chi.
- Eat food at Al's house.
- Do a couple of overnight solo retreats to my dad's shack at Opossum Bay.
- Hang out with friends and family lots.
- Learn Hebrew.
- Step my Greek up a notch.
- Read Volume I of Church Dogmatics.
- Read some Tertullian, cause Fi said I'd like him.
- Read The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark and The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins.
- Read The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright.
- Read some Alvin Plantinga and Con Van Til.
- Visit other churches around Hobart.
- Go to In the Chute.
