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I ended up scrapping thoughts of going camping on the weekend as the weather was looking remarkably unspectacular. I've grown accustomed around here to not carrying a jacket everywhere that I go, but ended up seeing rain on both Friday and today. Given the weather, I also decided not to bother driving up to Red Deer to chase the 2816 back down to Calgary.

This evening I spent some time navigating my way around the northern regions of the city, which is soon to become my new home. Under some rather ominous skies I went for a walk in Nose Hill Park. It's not a park that I've visited before, but it proved somewhat interesting. Nose Hill is a rather pitiful excuse for a hill, but had just enough of an incline that from the location that I was standing you couldn't see the city to the East. Thus, it looked just like open grasslands fading off into nothingness for the most part. While there I stumbled across a few of these:

In retrospect I should have taken my camera, but checking out this park was a spur of the moment idea. Something that I'll have to do later I suppose.

Just recently I ended up acquiring the book The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) which sounds like it should be an interesting read.

Reading from some of my typical soruces - I read far too many blogs, forums & news sites - I discovered that the author of this book had passed away just one week ago. In a profile of this man, who was a professor at Yale for much of his life, I stumbled across the following blurb:

Could Pelikan have accomplished what he has done if he had stayed in Christian institutions? Most churches or seminaries, Pelikan reflects, remain fundamentally ambiguous about scholarship. Many are eager to use it when it reinforces their settled positions, but they become skittish when it moves into uncharted areas. "You have to give the church what it needs, not what it wants. And in order to do that you may have to leave its payroll. It hurts me to say this because I want to be part of a church where that doesn't have to be said. But show me one where it is not true."

Consider the following quotes concerning Josiah:

"No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses." - 2 Kings 23:25 (NET)

"The king ordered all the people, 'Observe the Passover of the Lord your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.' He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem." 2 Kings 23:21-23 (NET)

(Note that this second quote implies that David neglected the passover).