Wendy did a series on support networks for ministry wives recently. As I read it, I sensed that this was something missing for me. But at the same time, I feel like I don’t fall neatly in the ‘ministry wife’ category and my issues are different from women who do. […]
The essays for my three other subjects allowed me to get stuck into some issues I came to college with. My essay for History of Evangelicalism was fun but didn’t carry the same weight for me as the others. (In case you’re interested, it was on whether/how Charles Wesley’s hymn […]
Many readers of this blog will be familiar with my ongoing issue with trying to understand the Bible’s teaching about God’s power in weakness. Some of the questions I have carried have been why I should seek to grow in my skills or go to Bible college if God works through […]
I wrote recently that a few years ago when I critiqued The Shack, I decided not to discuss the Trinity. Partly I thought there were other issues going on and I didn’t have the theological know-how to tackle it but also, to be quite honest, I was wondering what all […]
In our final chapel service for the year at Ridley, we sang a new hymn penned for the Ridley centenary by Peter Waterhouse. It was a poignant climax to a moving service, in which Peter Adam made an exultant call to praise from Psalm 145, and some of the 2010 […]
We’ve just had our last day of classes – now heading into swot vac before our three-exams-in-two-days! I came to college with a number of issues I wanted to chase through and I’ve been pleasantly surprised that my essays this semester have provided me with opportunities to pursue those questions. […]
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 […]
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