I know this author a little so I’ve been especially looking forward to this one: Robert Heaney’s chapter in Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations is ‘Prospects and problems for evangelical postcolonialisms’. He’s asking: in what sense might evangelical and postcolonial go together? It’s a pretty academic chapter covering a lot of ground, but this is a key question. Heaney spends time defining both […]
Steve Hu and Gene Green contributed chapters to the introductory section of Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations, the book I’m posting on each Friday. Steve Hu graduated from an evangelical seminary. Beginning to minister in a Chinese American megachurch, he found himself ill-equipped for the cross-cultural questions. People were grappling with their cultural identity, often […]
It’s all over social media, but I reckon it’s too easy for me to look at it through my own cultural goggles, so here are some of the questions I’ve been asking. In particular, I’ve been trying to listen more closely to people on the ground, like Jeremy Courtney who […]
This is the first in an ongoing series in which I’ll tease out some connections between postcolonial theology and Tanzanian university ministry. Part of the occasion for this is a new book, Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations (check Booko if you’d like to get the paperback in Australia). We’ll delve into that […]
This is a transcript of my sermon to our campus English-language congregation, 13 July 2014 Today we will hear the story of Noah and the flood What is that story about? Judgement… Creation care… Many things undoubtedly… As we hear this story we will see that it is about Jesus… […]
Should we seek God’s guidance in the mundane things? To an Aussie this might seem a bit absurd, especially if it’s the truly ordinary things, like the morning choice between Weetbix and Vegemite toast. Surely we need to begin at a higher level. Life direction. That’s where God’s will really […]
At TAFES finalists’ day, graduating students have a chance to ready themselves for their futures, with sessions like ‘Finding balance after campus life’ and ‘Career and work skills development’. The session I went to was ‘Discovering and utilising your potential’, and the bulk of it was devoted to specific life […]
Meet Jesus at uni 