Luphurise Mawere‘s latest podcast episode is some teaching she gave at the weekly women’s meeting she runs. This week the passage was Peter sinking after he took his eyes from Jesus. She asked, where do the waves come from? What about the hardships in your life? Her answer was that […]
When I’m not writing here, I’ve been regularly contributing to Fixing Her Eyes, which is an Aussie site for Christian women. Here are the articles I’ve written in the second half of this year, about one a month: Are we allowed to be angry with God about suffering? As I […]
Arthur finally talked me into watching Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life and I enjoyed it much more than I expected to. Even the evolution-y, creation-y, impressionistic-y bit. Actually, especially that bit. And the dinosaurs (cheesy, I know, but I’ve got a thing for dinosaurs!) But this film is more than […]
I’ve made two introductory posts to this Trinity series (1, 2). Now we get to the guts of it. The first reason why the Trinity makes such a difference is because only if God is Trinity can we truly know God. And because God is Trinity, he also knows us. […]
Last week Arthur and I went to see Eddie Izzard in his latest show Stripped. We’ve previously enjoyed his humorous take on European history in Dress to Kill and this time amused ourselves pre-show by translating the Hebrew paragraph on the backdrop. There were a number of other ancient languages there as well […]
Song of the Nightingale is the story of Helen Berhane, imprisoned for 3 years for being a Christian in Eritrea. Helen belonged to a pentecostal denomination of Christianity which isn’t recognised in Eritrea. As a result, her singing ministry and Bible study group activities led to several arrests and then […]
At our Melbourne church I recently had the chance to explore the longest speech in the Book of Job and its implications. Get audio-only here and an accompanying group study here.
Meet Jesus at uni 