…Added to our footer: Lausanne World Pulse. Nuff said. ABC Religion and Ethics. There’s more than just the blog! Ben Myers reckons, “Not only will this site provide a single online destination for religion news and current affairs from around the world, it will host perhaps the most significant gathering […]
We just got back from a retreat with our college learning community. Rhys Bezzant is hoping to stitch together spiritually sustainable Christian leaders who are prepared for the long haul of a life of adversity. He took us through two studies on Jesus’ letters to the church of Smyrna and […]
A selection of Will Mackerras’s limericks from the Reformation Tour
On the plane from Dubai to Dar es Salaam, there was a Tanzanian family sitting a few rows in front of us. It was a Dad, an older woman, possibly his mother, and three young children. The youngest was a little girl, probably about 18 months and she was adorable. […]
In my last post, I mentioned that you can’t separate off St John’s the uni from Dodoma as a town and I want to explore that some more here. There are lots of non-uni people to interact with: the guards at the uni gate; the milk lady; drivers; sellers at […]
The other thing that really hit me, that first few hours in Dar es Salaam, was the lack of convenience.
In my last post, I highlighted one of the missiological issues that we will face if we go to Dodoma: language. Another issues is where we will live. In the past (and sometimes the present) missionaries have been notorious for living in big houses, separate from the people they’re trying […]
Meet Jesus at uni 