Arthur and I are big believers in storytelling the Bible and we’ve been working on that recently. When I was asked to speak to a church group in Songea, I gave storytelling Jephthah’s daughter a go. In the next post I’ll give some of the group’s responses, but first, here’s […]
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 […]
‘Oh, this is amazing!’ I said to my sister Jess as I took a sip of my chocolate milkshake with real Flake bits in it. In honour of her visit, we were visiting the new (only?) cafe in town, at the big fancy hotel. She turned to me and said, […]
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 […]
Reading Macchia’s ‘Global Pentecostalism and Baptism in the Spirit’, I found myself asking in what sense his argument is global. It seems that in the western Pentecostal crisis about the efficacy of ‘baptism in the Spirit’, Pentecostal theological method as practiced in the majority world has come to be seen, […]
Monster, Walter Dean Myers Steve Harmon is on trial for felony murder. Was he part of the team whose robbery went wrong and resulted in the murder of a drugstore in Harlem, USA? A budding filmmaker, Steve’s story is mostly told through a screenplay he writes about his trial. He’s […]
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