A mate put me onto Bill Gates’s 2013 annual letter and the surrounding discussion. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation makes targeted attacks on big issues, like poverty, health, and education. Gates’s letter emphasises the importance of measurable goals and measurable change: In the past year I have been struck again and again […]
Here’s a couple of sermons we gave in Adelaide and Melbourne during the last six months, attempting to ground our partner churches in a common identity with Tanzanian Christians. I looked at how some of Jesus’ teaching might open up the question of ‘changing the world’: You are the light […]
Last Friday I wrote on Facebook I couldn’t be in the main sessions or seminars so most of my NTE experience revolved around the strand group Arthur and I were leading. It was Strand 2, which means our people had been to NTE once before (and obviously come back for […]
While Christian Union meetings in my high school made me grow in my personal Christian life, they did not achieve much in assisting me to relate my Christian life to the so called “worldly or secular” matters which mattered a lot to me, because a big chasm existed between them. […]
What if a generation of a nation’s leaders were living for Jesus? We’re spending the next 10 years working with university students in Dodoma, Tanzania’s new education capital.
We’ve all heard the jokes about Arts degrees. I should know – I did one. Arthur went one step further and did Honours. Then we followed up with theology. We are overly qualified to work at Maccas. In contrast to that, Mehal Krayem has written a great piece on why […]
What should a university ministry look like? In the weeks to come, I’ll be teasing out a couple of ideas about the purpose of student ministry. As always, I’d love to have your input along the way. What has defined your experience or practise of university ministry? First up, I want […]
Meet Jesus at uni 