Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
We are currently in Arusha on our first holiday since we arrived in Tanzania so this will be the last post for a couple of weeks. We chose Arusha because we were told it’s more western than Dodoma – being the gateway to the Serengeti, it gets a lot of […]
So you’re driving along a highway in Tanzania. The car or truck in front of you has its right blinker on. What does it mean? Possible messages include: 1. I am about to overtake the car(s) in front of me. 2. You should overtake me (and possibly the cars in […]
The other night Arthur said to me, ‘I like the smell of your hair.’ And I was like, ‘What? Almost 8 years being married to me and this is the first time you’ve said something like that!’ But my hair smells different now to what it did a year ago. […]
Late last semester I spoke at chapel on Mark 8 about denying yourself and taking up your cross to follow Christ. This is often a concept that others apply to Arthur and me as ‘missionaries’, which is ironic because this is a call to every believer. God forbid that ‘taking […]
There’s a discussion going on among western theologians at the moment about what the gospel is. We’ve written bits and pieces on a few of the players here, here and here. It’s all about trying to figure out what the essence of the gospel message is: be reconciled to God; […]
With the recent controversy about the use of USD200,000 in church funds to get a book of Mark Driscoll’s onto the New York Times Bestseller list, Carl Trueman has written a piece about how leadership works in American Evangelicalism. He raises a question at the end of the piece regarding “the […]
We’ve been thinking a bit about the prosperity gospel and keen to learn from local sources here in Tanzania. So when we had dinner recently with a Christian leader from a region about 2 hours north of Dodoma, we took the opportunity to ask him what he thought. He doesn’t […]
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