Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
My brothers-in-law are quite into cricket so I was interested in the biography of CT Studd for that reason, but mainly, because he gave up the fame and luxury of his cricketing career for the life of a missionary, working in China, India and Africa. This book is a very […]
Never Alone continues the series on missionary biography. It’s ‘the remarkable story of David and Robyn Claydon’. Strictly speaking you probably wouldn’t call them missionaries (though we had quite the discussion over the definition of that word in missiology) but they worked in local and overseas mission organisations and travelled […]
So, why go to Africa? Long term? or just for this visit? I thought I’d thought about this before but this week I’ve had a number of conversations that have caused me to re-visit this as Christians have discouraged me from our current long term plan to work in Tanzania.
I’ve written recently of how Christian history is littered with stories of missionaries who have not treated their wives well — Carey, Zinzendorf, and Wesley to name a few. I know there are more positive stories out there, so I went looking and found Love Stories of Great Missionaires by […]
This is the full biography of Gladys Aylward whom I mentioned in my last book review and whom we looked at briefly in Missiology. It’s quite a famous book but I hadn’t read it before. I’m glad I did!
Her.meneutics ran a piece today on the absence of women from the contemporary Christian music scene in the US – none in the top 10 Christian songs and artists and only 2 in the top 50. I’d be interested in getting an Australia perspective on this. I don’t really listen […]
Last week at college, hypnosis was used as a case study for doing a theological reflection. In the course of the discussion (and subsequent discussions) it emerged that many Christians don’t know that much about hypnosis and are confused about what it is and how to approach it. Red Twin […]
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