After many years of promising to give the university chaplains a proper place to work, the university administrators finally fulfilled their word. Our ramshackle fibro cottage was knocked down to make way for landscaped gardens and we moved into a new building. Desks! Air conditioning! A store room! A fire escape ( Read more... )

You'd think that with a job in student ministry I should be disciplined enough to get my personal bible reading in order. Sadly, no, it's still a struggle to spend time alone in God's word every day. Thankfully, however, God has still been teaching me great things this year through the many other contexts where I've spent time considering scripture ( Read more... )

Now that I've been a Howie for close to a year and I'm definitely out of the honeymoon phase I feel more comfortable comparing my old job with my new one. I am 100% convinced that it was the right time to finish at Anglicare and work at something other than research. However I realised recently that the change in work has meant that I don't write ( Read more... )

I'm still working out how to balance life this year with a meaningful online presence. Here are some things that have happened in the last month:

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After a summer of non-office job I am excited that my skin has gone a little brown, and strangely it's doing wonders for my self esteem.

I know, I know. There's no such thing as a safe tan.

But my pallid office skin was foreign and strange. It wasn't really me.
It was a sickly version of me, not actually sick but definitely deficientNow my ( Read more... )

It's Monday! It's week one! The lawns were covered with undergrad students, sprawling in sundresses. First years sat timidly on the benches around building where normal people never sit.

The first day with (undergrad) students is definitely worth documenting. Here are some things that happened:

One I went to my first even Staff Equip time, ( Read more... )

I am so excited about working with the Secondary Education students this year, and I am especially excited to work with the the student committee heading them up! Apart from being wonderful, they are also very creative! Check out this video we made at our planning days away:

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Pause for a breath ( Read more... )

It's less than a week until I start my new job and a new surprise has reared its head ( Read more... )

There's some career-related news I've been sitting on for awhile and it's finally time to make it public. I am leaving my position as a social researcher Anglicare at the end of the year and taking a sideways career step to work with the Sydney University Evangelical Union ( Read more... )