Arthur Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
You: An Introduction is by Aussie theologian Michael Jensen. It’s like Nooma in a book. The idea is that, in our hyperlinked, high-octane world, there are new tensions in the questions we have about human identity. Michael seeks to sketch out the Bible’s perspective on these modern dilemmas.
Neuromancer is a sacred text of pop culture. It’s where terms like ‘cyberspace’ and ‘the matrix’ were popularised. With its release in 1984, William Gibson set the standard for cyberpunk fiction (it was somewhat prefigured by the 1982 film Blade Runner). The fabric of Neuromancer’s world has since seeped into […]
We leave for Melbourne in a few days. Our Greek intensive at Ridley Melbourne begins on 2 Feb. We’d especially like to thank all our friends at St Matt’s and SAS for your support and prayers as we leave. St Matt’s is our home church and we’re sad to be […]
As I gear up for study, I want to renew my prayer life. I’ve always felt a tension between the tremendous importance of prayer and my desperate failure to pray. I’ll write progressively more about praying in months to come. In the meantime, here are a few thoughts rehashed from […]
[From 22 November] The Quantum of Solace is a violent, breakneck scuttle through five countries in a mere 105 minutes.
A few thoughts have been brewing on The Shack. Tamie has already skirted trinitarian red herrings and tackled a great deal. In the end, I just have a personal quibble: the way The Shack is written.
The other night I was zoned out in front of Van Helsing before flipping over to ‘The book that shook the world’. It’s a doco about The Little Red Schoolbook, by Danish teachers Soren Hansen and Jesper Jensen, published in Australia in 1972.
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