Who'd have thought marking national literacy tests would continue to hold allegorical links to the Christian life? Well, not me. That's for sure. Maybe it's because I read a Psalm before I started marking yesterday. Maybe it's because I've been reading Psalms all year. But when I pulled up yet another response that chose to …
It's that time of year again in Australian schools. The time when a large swathe of students sit our National Assessment Program... and the time just after that, when the writing component is marked by a slightly smaller swathe of teachers. Myself being one of them. This could explain the reason while I'm unusually feeling …
Sting. You can recognise his voice anywhere. Even if you're walking through a shopping centre as I was the other day when an unmistakable timbre resounded through the centre's PA system. I knew it was him, but I couldn't pick the song. Unusually for me, I pulled out my phone and let it do the …
Continue reading #177 This is the sound of a Biblical allusion
I've been reading the Psalms lately (the whole year) and read Psalm 126 yesterday. Towards the end, the psalmist makes a request: "restore our fortunes LORD, like streams in the Negev." It's a cry to God for goodness to be abundant, and favour to be bestowed. It's also some cracking imagery. Australians are very familiar …
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