Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
There are far too many keen insights and penetrating critiques in Simon Chan’s Grassroots Asian Theology to be contained in a few topics or a few quotes but here are a few that stuck out to me. On changing the world “In spite of a lack of theology of engagement, […]
I have this idea that if we lived in Australia, Elliot and I would visit the park or the library, go to Mainly Music groups, and he would do craft activities at Sunday School or play group. Or that at least those things would be options. They aren’t options here […]
Someone sent me a blog post entitled 5 reasons for a Christian to question feminism (by which the author really means 5 reasons for a complementarian to question feminism, though most of her points don’t actually relate to complementarianism per se.) The author, Christine, hesitates over feminism for 5 reasons […]
Late last year, Mike Bird called Simon Chan’s Grassroots Asian Theology ‘one of the best books of the year’ in 2013. So, what is grassroots Asian theology? Here are some quotes, emphases mine. On Theology “Postmodern theologians, having quite rightly done away with positivistic view of doctrines as universal timeless […]
Every Sunday I think about that Huffington Post article written to parents of young children in church. And every Sunday I am unconvinced by it. We have no creche or Sunday school but each week at church, people say to me, ‘It’s fine for him to run around,’ ‘We don’t […]
Particularly among university students, there is a desire for self-, life-, and nation-improvement. Sometimes that can feel very overwhelming, whether it’s in the pressures of exams or the bigger picture of being one person trying to make a difference in their nation. These proverbs seem particularly relevant. Haba na haba […]
Happy Easter! This year for Lent our family started a new tradition, the Lenten Cross. It was inspired by how much Elliot loved our Jesse Tree for Advent (below). We are keen to build some of the rhythms of the church year into our family life in a sustainable way […]
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