You can buy Kate Kirkpatrick’s Grove booklet Women, Justice and the Church: an apology for feminism for about AUD 7 and I suggest that you do so. It’s not about why Christians should be feminists (indeed, she explicitly states that this is not necessary); it simply explains why feminism exists. […]
We’re spending some of the uni holidays visiting village churches. Our experience of Tanzania has been largely urban but ‘the village’ is the backdrop to the Tanzanian zeitgeist as well as the background or future for many university students. We’re doing the visits separately so that the other of us […]
What do you make of this image? Where does it take you? City Wonder (introduction/all posts) is a series of visual meditations on the city, exploring themes like creativity, ecology and decay/renewal. Each image is a window into a realm or mindframe; an invitation to an ethos or concept; a meditation on histories […]
Tanzanians use Facebook quite differently from how Aussies do. It’s one place you can see their interest in wisdom as they post infographics about why you should drink more water, or proverbs from TB Joshua or Joyce Meyer. So when our friend asked the other day “Can someone enlighten me […]
When ethicist Andrew Sloane’s ‘At Home in a Strange Land’ discusses the sixth commandment ‘do not murder’, he argues that abortion ought not to be considered murder. I hadn’t heard this argument before; at the very least it once again calls Christians away from emotive labels and towards nuance in […]
What do you make of this image? Where does it take you? City Wonder (introduction/all posts) is a series of visual meditations on the city, exploring themes like creativity, ecology and decay/renewal. Each image is a window into a realm or mindframe; an invitation to an ethos or concept; a meditation on histories […]
Another preaching experiment, Genesis 32:24-29, for the campus congregation, 9 November 2014. A man stands alone by the river in the cold dark night His household possessions have already been sent ahead Even his wives and sons have gone ahead and he is alone now He is alone and he is afraid […]
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