Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
Arthur got given Rev Season 1 for his birthday. It’s a BBC comedy about a country vicar who gets promoted to an urban church – a huge historical building with a congregation of less than 10. You can watch a clip of it here or here.
Arthur says every Australian city is a new cross-cultural experience. We had a ball in Brisbane and loved trying to work out its unique culture.
In my last post, I argued that The Hunger Games is nothing new – but that’s a good thing! Young adults need texts like this and they ought not to be censored for early high school readers. In this post, I want to address some specific concerns about the novel. […]
I admit it. I’m a late-comer to The Hunger Games. I first found out about it on Jenny’s blog in 2010 and the feminist blogosphere has been discussing it for ages. But I only read it this weekend. You, like me have probably seen the hype around the movie; I’ll restrict […]
This article from 2009 outlines the state of maternal health care in Tanzania. (H/T Katie) Many of the concerns here are central to why we believe university ministry is so important in Tanzania. Here’s a summary: Pregnancy and childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year, more than half of them […]
We’re about to go on holidays so there won’t be much action here for a week or so. We’re on our way up to Brisbane, looking forward to: seeing a new city – neither of us have been there before! celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary warm weather (good bye gloomy […]
Last weekend, Arthur and I went down to Geelong to see a John Williamson concert. A mate of ours is a big fan of Aussie country music (and I’m a bit of a closet fan mysefl!) so we went with him. For the most part, I tried to enjoy rather […]
Meet Jesus at uni 