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It's snowed a few times since I arrived in Calgary. Apparently it's also rained at hours when I've not noticed. Tonight, though, is the first time that I can recall hearing the sound of raindrops pattering away outside in months. Can't say that I've missed it...

I was just chatting with Ryan on the phone this evening about the possibility of going camping somewhere roughly midway between Vancouver and Calgary around the July weekend (the long weekend, of course, meaning Book Early!).

The U of C shuts down on the Monday (July 1 is a Saturday) arounding to the calendar I found. Unfortunately, at the moment, about all I can supply as far as camping gear is concerned would be a single sleeping bag (I need to buy a new tent, and virtually everything else I've ever used whenever camping was probably borrowed from someone or other).

Figured I would throw up a couple of quotes from the introduction to Michael Horton's book A Better Way for you to reflect upon:

We cannot simply defend positions with either the this-is-the-way-we've-always-done-it assumption or the new-is-better assumption. Even if the practice of the past is correct, each subsequent generation needs to rediscover that for itself. On the other hand, dismissing the past by slavishly embracing the culture of modernity can lead in the end only to something other than Christianity. Neither assumption is faithful; neither assumption can restore our unity as the people of God from all nations and generations in the presence of God.

(p. 13)

Are our market-determined, therapeutic, and entertainment-shaped views of worship parallel in some ways to the clamor of Israel in its moments of apostacy for the gods of the nations? Even if they are nothing more than the attempt to make worship relevant for those who no longer understand the Bible "straight-up," will they end up reaching the lost or losing the reached?

(p. 16)

Well, I spent Saturday phoning around to try to find a basement suite, and (even for places in the paper that very day) either they had already been rented or I ended up at the tail end of some rather long queue.

Apartment dwellings around here seem to be going for somewhere in the neighborhood of $650+ for a studio or 1 bedroom, and that's even if you can find one (I phoned about 5 or 6 complexes between classes this afternoon and only one place had a single unit available in the $800 range).

Tomorrow comes another round of phoning apartment complexes looking for space, although I'm not feeling overly optomistic. Just wondering if I should be digging around in the shared accomodation listings, given that I've had no luck finding roommates to split the cost thus far.