Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter

March 19, 2013

TedTalks are shared here under a creative commons license

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Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school

March 13, 2013

On the prompting of a friend i’ve started watching more TED talks – and some of them have been so inspiring I can’t help but share my favourite finds. This is the story of teacher, massai, extraordinary woman, Kakenya Ntaiya. TEDTalks made available here under a Creative Commons (CC) license,

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Home Libraries: Rudyard Kipling

March 12, 2013

Today, i’m glad to be able to share images of the home library of one of the nineteenth centuries finest writers. Rudyard Kipling. When Rudyard Kipling came upon the secluded, 17th century Bateman’s House in Sussex, he was immediately smitten. He wrote: “We had seen an advertisement of her, and we reached her down an [...]

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On asking the wrong questions

March 11, 2013

“Thinking itself is a spiritual activity” – Abraham Kuyper If you’re around little children, especially those around 3 or 4, then you’d be pretty used to the questions: why? what’s that? So what happens to us? At what point do we become rubbish at asking questions. Does being told ‘because’ finally strangle the curiosity? When [...]

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Overland to Oz: Chisinau, Moldova to Moscow

March 9, 2013

Thanks for the suggestions and feedback on my last planning post. I always welcome your advice and suggestions. One of the cool things about Goannatree’s international readership is connecting with people in so many countries. In the last week, this blog has been read in: Cambodia, Mexico, Yemen, Chile, Serbia, Spain, Norway, Islamic Republic of [...]

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I am (still) not a feminist

March 8, 2013

In honour of International Women’s Day, 2013. I am (still) not a feminist,  but I am a Christian who believes that our world needs a serious shake up. I am still not a feminist, but I’ll defend your right to be one and to call yourself one. We still need to raise awareness through discussions [...]

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In the midst of life

March 8, 2013

Life doesn’t stop while you’re writing, and sometimes you have to work in less than ideal circumstances or fit the dissertation in the nooks and crannies. I often marvel at the lives of my dissertating friends with babies. I have enough trouble trying to make it all work on my own. The dissertation places strain [...]

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Home Libraries: George Bernard Shaw

March 5, 2013

George Bernard Shaw’s ‘London’ Hut Hidden at the bottom of Irish playwright Shaw’s garden was a rotating hut, which he built himself and wrote in. The story goes he called it ‘London’, so that if somebody called for him, they could be told he was in London and it would be true! The hut was [...]

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(un)comfortable masks

March 4, 2013

Much has changed in my writing since I first responded to Joy’s call to write Life: Unmasked. And for all the naked theology, I still find my resolve waning and egoist as it is, my own sense of vulnerability threatens to overwhelm. I often wondered how much trust was involved in the relationships of bloggers [...]

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You are not special

February 28, 2013

Working with ‘the public’ for the last four or five months, one pervasive attitude has struck me as being detrimental to our communities growing and thriving. It’s something that I don’t see the church as being immune from either  and some of the people I’ve come across in the ‘public sphere’ who have made it [...]

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