When I saw the trailer for Suffragette I wondered, why focus on the story of a working class woman? After all, one of the common criticisms of first wave feminists was that they were primarily white, middle class women with blind spots on race and class. Was it trying to […]
Merry Christmas! ‘The Nativity’ by Gari Melchers came up in my Facebook feed a few weeks ago and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. It’s from 1891. The painting isn’t set in the traditional stable, and there are no shepherds or wise men or angels. […]
Continuing my series on how to support our family on home assignment, this post is for people in churches, especially the kids ministry team. Our little guy comes along to a different church with us every week, and he does it in a culture that’s foreign to him. So, how […]
Today, some suggestions for how to ask us questions. At one level we don’t really care – any question shows you’re interested and want to be involved! However, these tips might help you to get some better answers out of us. 1. Don’t be embarrassed to ask something you think you should […]
With Arthur’s arrival in Australia, our home assignment has officially started! Over the next few Mondays I’ll post some tips about how you can be helpful to us during this time of visiting partner churches, organisations and people. Today, I’m starting with one tip which I hope will save us […]
Advent starts today. It’s a time of waiting and mystery, but we know what it is we’re anticipating: the coming of Christ. Christ has come. We know who he is, and what he did. The mystery is not around his identity or his work. The mystery lies in the why […]
This post is part of a series. A few years ago, I was on a parish council which received a request from a Korean congregation: would we be open to them using our building? It didn’t sound like a merger or even a partnership, just a congregation looking for a […]
Meet Jesus at uni 