Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
Last night Q&A had no politicians on the panel and so actually got to have a decent discussion. The topic was ANZAC Day and its significance. I was particularly interested in the discussions about the ANZAC legend, its authenticity and role in building a nation. I admit, I didn’t watch […]
My gym is going to be closed on ANZAC Day. Fair enough, it’s a public holiday. Plus, it’s respectful to those we honour on such a national day.
I got chatting last week with a visitor to Ridley who used to be the pastor of a big church in Sydney’s north. He was extolling the virtues of the youth pastor who’d worked under him and that youth pastor’s approach to growing and contextualising his ministry. I haven’t been […]
It’s often been said that music encapsulates an era. I was listening to a greatest hits CD of Destiny’s Child this week and it dawned on me that their music has in many ways been the soundtrack for women of my age. The girl power of the Spice Girls came […]
I’m reading for an essay on the theology of the Bible of Karl Barth at the moment. I generally try to use my essays as a chance to address an issue I have and clearly, I have a lot of ‘I wonders’ about the doctrine of scripture! Much of that has […]
I’ve been wanting to read Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls since it came out but have had to wait until it was more affordable so this review comes later than I had hoped. Wendy has ably reviewed it here and here so I thought I’d focus more on […]
Coinciding with our thinking on Scripture, we’re doing the theology course ‘Knowledge of God’ at Ridley this semester. Peter Adam has spoken about the work of the Spirit in the word in two ways: inspiration and illumination.
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