Continuing the infrequent series – you may notice a theme!

I’ve been enjoying the rantings of Mark Earngey and Stephen Gardner – two mates from college – in their ‘pilgrim’s podcast’ lately…it’s a great format: there is banter, ideas, theology but the thing I like most are the guests. Each week they chat to someone from college or around Sydney about themselves and the church/ministries they are a part of.

This kind of thing could be put to great use on a campus by having a student,  someone from the area, or even a missio as the guest each week.

it would:

• (For a student guest) Provide a means to ‘meet’ the students in the group as they share their story, talk about their church, passions hopes and so on. They no doubt would hearten others as they talk about the struggles and joys of being a Christian as uni.
• (For a local guest) Profile people doing stuff in the area and hear about events/movements that are going to be of interest to students. Hear from grads, or people in the local bible college.
• (For a missio guest) Put the call to evangelise the nations before students in a different and interesting way. be encouraged at how God loves his world through missionary endeavour.

Is anyone doing this already? let me know if you do decide to…i’d love to tune in!

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Upside down celebrities. i’m embracing the weird people title and suggesting you have a laugh at these very weird photos.

Anki is an excellent tool for language learning. It uses spaced repetition to get words in your head with maximum efficiency.

Since many of you in my year have switched to using Anki, I’ve made a widget which can use your anki file as its source…ao you can show any vocab that you want on your desktop as a widget and play the memory game to your hearts content.

More details…

It’s likely to have bugs, so leave a message if you find any.

enjoy!

Anton has posted the results from last time. I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next one (though you wouldn’t guess from where I placed!)

If you’re at Moore, haven’t heard about it and would like to come along leave a message on his blog or ask him about it.

Have just handed in my OT essay. woohoo!

Ask me about Jehoiachin’s release in 2 Kings 25.27-30 and its implications for the theology of the Deuteronomistic history and I’ll tell you a little bit more than I could have a week ago…

One thing I found immensely helpful in the process is a free tool for getting biblical languages like hebrew and greek into your word processor easily: Shibboleth check it out if you think you can use something like this.

They also have a Hebrew and Greek keyboard for windows + mac which is a whole lot better layed out than the one that comes with your operating system imo.

Nothing tremendously exciting…just to let you know I’ve unpinned the posts relating to Zotero and stylesheets fromthe front page now that the OT essay is done (for most of you!!).

From now on you’ll find them and all future posts related to study stuffs in the new page ‘Stuff for Study’. The button is at the top of the blog.

Looking through my stats, someone ended up on this blog after searching for “weird people” on bing.com (Microsoft’s new search engine).

Not sure how I feel about that!

No one told me you only had to do it once a year!

I’m going to start posting occasionally about ideas for uni ministry. This first one relates to Bible reading.

My hunch is that for uni students actually picking up a physical Bible is becoming less common these days. The amount of time spent on computers by students has greatly increased. Much of life is spent online – switching between emails, im, checking facebook and reading blogs…and occasionally studying towards degrees.

I reckon that Bible reading could very easily be added to that list of online activities(/distractions).

All you’d need to do is set up a blog and post a chapter a day and encourge students to subscribe by rss or email. Over the course of an average degree (3 years) you’d cover the whole Bible!

Of course there are already blogs around which do this kind of thing. But I’m suggesting that you should run one just for your uni group. Why?

1. It would create the sense that the group is reading the Bible together. The same plan is used by everyone

2. Capable students could contribute their reflections and comments to be included in the post for each chapter.

3. Prayer suggestions will of course arise from the passage but could be focussed toward things of relevance and concern to the local group.

4. Comments and discussion come from the group and are answered by the group

5. Integration (stylisticly and logically) into the group’s website

Check out DMDC’s post ’7 keys to starting a movement’

Clicking through a bit further unearthed this gem: Auto-tune the news. enjoy!

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