Thoughts on church, theology, life . . .
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The pre-school that I am supposed to be helping 'get on track' is causing me headaches! Neither of the two teachers working there is qualified and they are most upset that I believe that we can only move forward with at least one qualified teacher in place. They tell me
This time last year, I was in Grahamstown. I hadn't seen my husband and children for about ten weeks and there was still ten days to go before I would go home and see them. I was feeling very dislocated. I was thoroughly immersed in Xhosa culture - it was
I know that I really need to make more time to pray. I used to say - this was maybe five or six years ago - that I didn't know how one could be a pastor or a minister without spending at least two hours a day in prayer. I
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is the last thoughts of a professor of computer science who discovers that he is dying of cancer. Very easy reading, but challenging and motivational. He writes the book as a way of recording memories for his small children who will probably have few,
What makes a blog like 'Discerning the World' so popular? It would seem to have such a narrow focus that one would expect it to have limited appeal - but I don't really know what the 'person in the pew' is thinking. The thing that I don't enjoy about the
I am in the second year of my 'read the whole Bible in three years' programme and this week we have been reading Esther. In the last few years I have been struck by the similarities between the books of Daniel and Esther - which is maybe not surprising given
Today I have almost too many things to do. But they all things that I can do on my computer and all things that I know I will be able to do (a lot of my journey this year has been into things I can't do!) So I need to
Ok, so things are settling down into a routine. Which is good and bad - bad because routine can become rut and good because I can start to plan. So I sat down and made sure that I could give seminary 40 hours Monday to Friday and also spend
I finished reading 'Gifted to lead: the art of leading as a woman in the church' by Nancy Beach (while waiting for my son's bus after a cricket match on Saturday).It's a solid book. No fireworks, but it tackles real issues meaningfully. I haven't experienced the sort of intentional
The seminary students at SMMS constitute a circuit of the Methodist Church. Because of this, we have 'circuit quarterly meetings'. This does make sense, because we are not part of the local circuits in Pietermaritzburg and would not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in the formal discussions of
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