Movie: The Queen If ever someone earned a best actress Oscar for embodying a role, it’s Mirren. Perhaps she already looks like Queen Elizabeth the second, and that certainly helps, but the dignity she brings to the role, the masterfully constrained emotion: excellent work, good to watch. The other characterisations are good, but it’s the …
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Book: Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work
Book: Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work Another Eugene H. Peterson work for the ministry formation course. Here, he takes the Magiloth (never heard the term before, myself) – five books of the old testament – Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther – and interprets them for pastors. A few traps that he …
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breakfast with ben and jackie
breakfast with ben and jackie Our church was looking for a way to raise money for overseas mission. They decided to run an auction – people in the congregation would offer products, or services, for sale, and everyone could bid on them. What did we have to offer? What else, but a cafe-style breakfast cooked …
fresh look
A quick change of stylesheet, mostly for readability, and a banner image that better reflects where the site is at. Once I move house later in the month, I might have a little more time for the site, but for now, it’s a bowl latte that I poured myself, some greek text, and (in the …
Spoken Greek New testament
[kevin] Audio Greek New Testament
Fitzy’s cafe, Sydney
Fitzy’s cafe, sydney Pablo & Rusty’s premium espresso. Adjacent to the maritime union building, this café has the ambience of a YHA cafe; sunlight, open space, young-style furniture. Staff are efficient, and not unfriendly. Prices are a little high, but not unreasonable. Coffee is ready fast, it’s a good temperature and easy to drink. Not …
Lunchtime greek
Lunchtime greek Minor breakthrough this lunchtime with greek, although it’s a little hard to explain. Spent the lunchbreak on some exercises; one was to translate “the one god is in heaven”, which I managed to nut out, without looking up any words. Not terribly exciting, huh? Well, as it turns out, the breakthrough was in …