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Internet Identity
This blog moved to alisonmoffitt.wordpress.com in April 2014.
Head on over for more up-to-date reading.I lose track of what we are supposed to think about presentation of self on the internet. One minute it is liberating, the next minute it is dangerous. One minute it is our authentic self, the next it is a pack of lies. We tell young people to be ( Read more... ) -
Apocalyptic words
I think I just read one of the most helpful explanations of what biblical apocalyptic language was used for:
If you had been a journalist in AD69, what language owuld you have used to describe the Year of the Four Emperors? Probably the same kind of cosmic, apocalyptic language that was used after September 11, 2001. 'The End of the World'? Well, ( Read more... ) -
Feast day
Thanks be to God for rest days, for scripture, for quiet places, for understanding and loving friends, for tea ( Read more... ) -
Three texts for the third month
March has been a diverse month: high highs, and low lows. Moments of clarity and thoughtfulness. Moments of knee-jerking and sudden reaction. We are not even half way in.
Here are three texts I have been meditating on over the last couple of weeks.
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Belonging and not belonging at the university
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... ) -
Swearing, Orwell and being made in the image of God
[Warning: I don't normally swear on this blog but this post includes some swear words. Just letting you know if you need to prepare yourself!]
'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; ( Read more... ) -
Order of Australia
This Australia Day, my Dad won an award! Even more - he was accepted as a member of the Order of Australia, which as far as I can make out is like Australia's chillaxed version of the British knighthood.
"Sir Frederick and Lady Wentworth! It would be but a new creation, however, and I never think much of your new creations."
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2013 in review: the Bible version
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... ) -
The advent project
Christmas is only two weeks away!
I have been relatively quiet here on Livejournal but not in the wider blogosphere. Matt and I have been working on The Advent Project, a labour of love that we have been planning and writing over the last couple of months. Now we are in Advent and our blog has been live for a couple of weeks. There is (if I may ( Read more... ) -
Phenomena of netball - Part 2: Facial recognition and spatial awareness
After a two year hiatus I have returned to netball this summer for a short season. Returning once again to the sport that occupied my childhood and adolescence has brought fresh perspective to some interesting phenomena of netball. Here is the second in a series of three posts.
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Part 2: Facial recognition and ( Read more... )