Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
There’s a lady near where we park our car in town who sells grapes and we’ve gotten to know her a bit over the weeks. Purple grapes are a specialty in Dodoma region (no idea where they grow them though – I haven’t seen a vineyard!). I always buy a […]
Fulata Lusungu Moyo says in ‘Navigating Experiences of Healing: A Narrative Theology of Eschatological Hope as Healing’ from African Women, Religion and Health, that when her husband Solomon became ill with cancer, her religio-cultural environment regarded it as ‘an infliction from the devil probably through witchcraft.’ However, the attitude of […]
Surprised by Oxford is a memoir of Carolyn Weber‘s (then Carolyn Drake) first year at Oxford. She arrives in the autumn and by spring has become a Christian. This is a story of how you might wish all evangelism went. She meets a stack of incredibly smart, thoughtful people who […]
Musa W Dube wants to see African Indigenous Religions (hereafter AIR/s) viewed in their own right, arguing that those who view them as awaiting the fulfilment of Christianity have had their minds ‘colonised’, and, along with it, their methods of doing theology. Her article in African Women, Religion and Health, ‘Adinkra! […]
A variation on lemon curd or lemon butter, this recipe was largely an attempt to use up some of the passionfruit produced by the 4 vines in our backyard. It’s good on a bit of bread or anything you might use jam for. By the way, did you know that […]
Iringa is about 260km away from Dodoma (say, 5 hours on a good road) but at the moment, you have to go through Morogoro, doubling the distance and the travel time. So the government is currently using aid money and the help of many Chinese engineers in straw hats to […]
Nyambura J Njogore’s ‘Let’s Celebrate the Power of Naming’ in African Women, Religion and Health, honours an essay written by Mercy Oduyoye about her experiences of being a childless African woman. Njogore takes Mercy’s approach of naming the pain and from such experiences creating a life-giving theology, as an example for […]
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