Arthur Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
We’ve just got back from Summer Encounter 2012, the CMS South Australia conference, at which Lindsay Brown was a keynote speaker. His roles have included the International General Secretary of IFES and International Director at the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town 2010). Lindsay shared a series of […]
Here’s a bunch of movies I’ve seen during the 2011-12 Adelaide summer. I enjoy stories that fiddle with my horizons, whether or not they entirely succeed! That includes “war-horror” films…
Musical whiz Tim Minchin has performed a pop culture Christmas carol: Praise be to Magic Woody Allen Zombie Superman Komodo Dragon Telepathic Vampire Quantum Hovercraft Me Jesus! What is it? Like pretty much all comedy, there’s a point to it and there’s something that it’s skewering. Tim Minchin more or […]
Killer suit, isn’t it? Balanced Christianity: a call to avoid unnecessary polarisation is a 1975 booklet, the earliest expression I’ve seen of John Stott’s both-and approach, which seeks to embrace both poles in order to avoid polarisation. The strength of this lies not in the ‘both-and’ notion (which on its […]
Are you an Australian who’s sick of xenophobia and media hoo-hah about asylum seekers? Let’s help build a culture of welcoming newcomers to our nation! After kicking off in our home town and organising nationwide “welcome parties”, Welcome to Australia set up this brilliant photo campaign. Use this page to […]
What sort of Bible do you own? Perhaps, like me, you own more than one version: different sizes; different translations; perhaps a study or devotional edition. Yet, all of these versions probably have one thing in common: their design. When you open a Bible, what does each page look like? […]
You know it’s going to be an exciting novel when it wins awards for fantasy, science fiction and horror all at once! American Gods is a modern-day mythic tale by Neil Gaiman. All I want to do here is take a look at the novel’s intriguing premise.
Meet Jesus at uni 