The days after Christmas sometimes feel like a sigh of relief. All the preparations are over, the events catered for, the presents unwrapped. In Australia it means now the summer holidays really begin. As a child, though, I remember feeling a bit let down the day after Christmas. After all, […]
We received the sad news this morning that the senior pastor at our church when we were downtown died very suddenly. It was a big church and I did not know him personally but I learned a great deal from Pastor Ranwell and am thankful for his ministry. One sermon […]
In no particular order… Devotion, Hannah Kent Readers of Kent’s other books Burial Rites and The Good People, will recognise the connection with physicality and place, as well as the spiritual backdrop and themes. Devotion is a novel about the German religious refugees who settled in Hahndorf in South Australia. […]
As our water woes have continued, the question I keep wondering is, how long will this go on for? If someone just told me: there’ll likely be no water until it rains, I think I might find it a little easier, but instead we keep being told, ‘tomorrow’ or ‘on […]
The last few years have been a wild ride for our family, as has been the case for many others… In 2019 we experienced significant displacement on home assignment, and 6 weeks after we arrived back in Tanzania, Covid hit and we went into 5 months isolation working from home […]
I finished my PhD fieldwork this week, well ahead of schedule. It’s a pretty big milestone and has been a mammoth effort. Arthur asked me how I wanted to celebrate – should we do something special, like go to our favourite BBQ place? I delayed answering but I wasn’t sure […]
Our Callum has recently been asking each member of the family what our favourite thing is about living in Tanzania. I told him it’s the fashion – the prints and the designs and getting it made to fit specially for you. Arthur said his is the creatures, not just on […]
Meet Jesus at uni 