Bonjour! Je m'appelle Pierre. Je vien d'Australie, mais j'habite à Paris.
Je suis mariée avec Kathryn. Elle est belle, bien sur! Nous sommes étudiants.
Je n'aime pas faire du sport, sauf j'aime la natation et la cours à pied. J'aime les voyages mais je n'aime pas de tout l'avion.
Le Dimanche prochain je vais visiter l'hôtel de Ville à Paris.
L'année prochain nous allons demenager à Burkina Faso, et je vais apprendre le Langue des Puel.
Pour maitenant, C'est tout!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Saturday, May 09, 2009
a poem
It's my legs that want you
bored with being unencumbered;
My arms long tired of their tendrilous search
My skin that hungers with prehensile static
My chest desperate for the weight of your sleeping head,
but you won't come — you're never born, forever dead.
Monday, February 02, 2009
New Ministry Website
It's been a long time since I blogged here, we've been kind busy working to eat and madly working on partnership development and trying to get ready to leave Australia.
"Why?" you may ask. Good question!
Well visit this website and find out all about our planned ministry.
www.pkmccarthy.com.
The Blue Furry Emperor
"Why?" you may ask. Good question!
Well visit this website and find out all about our planned ministry.
www.pkmccarthy.com.
The Blue Furry Emperor
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
It all flew by like a dream.
My Project is done, in and has even been returned.
I graduted and we have moved out of college accomodation and said strange goodbyes to people.
Now I am sitting by the window looking out over fields of dairy farm onm the south coast, cattle watching, bird watching, hare watching, soaking in the peace and solitude and beauty. Oh, the Bliss.
There is something so nourishing for the soul about being in and appreciating and experiencing God's creation, that is seriously lacking in a city-lifestyle. The urban is all baout man: man made, man centred, man functioning, man serving. One loses one's right persepective, as a creature of Divine crafting and service, in the human-centric city, I think.
My Project is done, in and has even been returned.
I graduted and we have moved out of college accomodation and said strange goodbyes to people.
Now I am sitting by the window looking out over fields of dairy farm onm the south coast, cattle watching, bird watching, hare watching, soaking in the peace and solitude and beauty. Oh, the Bliss.
There is something so nourishing for the soul about being in and appreciating and experiencing God's creation, that is seriously lacking in a city-lifestyle. The urban is all baout man: man made, man centred, man functioning, man serving. One loses one's right persepective, as a creature of Divine crafting and service, in the human-centric city, I think.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
What is Wisdom?
According the book of Proverbs I think Wisdom is obediently living the fear of the Lord in every part of life.
Well that's what I think anyway.
What do you think?
Well that's what I think anyway.
What do you think?
Leading cause of death in Australia
Friends of mine published this blog you should all check out!!!!
http://yourdna.blogspot.com/2007/10/leading-cause-of-death-in-australia.html
http://yourdna.blogspot.com/2007/10/leading-cause-of-death-in-australia.html
Thursday, October 25, 2007
No retributive theology in Proverbs
Really - there isn't!
Far too late for my Wisdom Literature exams, and only just in time for my Exit Project on Proverbs, I think I understand the Book of Proverbs! Or, at least the question about retribution theology.
It's almost standard talk in Wisdom Literature circles to say that Proverbs seems to have glimmers of retributive theology. Retribution theology is the belief that certain actions will guarantee certain blessings or punishments from God. For example, 'be a good girl and God will make you rich'. This is of course countered by the fact that some proverbs contradict each other, and of course the existential realities of Job and Ecclesiastes show that this rosy-eyed optimism doesn't always work.
The problem I have with this view is two-fold. First it is based on the premise that Proverbs is disharmonious with the rest of the canon and therefore needs to be 'silenced' or qualified (which is the nicer more professional term, but it still does the same thing!) by other books. Second, it fails to read the proverbs for what they are.
If there is one thing that form-critics have done for us, it is remind us that the proverbs that are in the Book of Proverbs (BoP) originated as oral texts. That is they are collected folk-wisdom sayings. Many of them were originally floating around as one-liners. This needs to shape how we interpret the proverbs, but not quite how the form-critics suggest.
When I say to you "Cheaters never prosper" (an English proverb) you do not believe that cheaters never ever win, nor do you believe that I think that is the case. No-one does. Only a complete nincompoop would read them as unconditional promises. What we do understand almost innately is that the proverb is used to promote or deplore a certain behaviour or attitude. It is the inter-personal meaning that is of significance here. This is how they are used in the BoP. They have not morphed into some one's idealistic world-before-the-fall; they are included in the BoP to promote what the writer(s) believe to be wise living (what wise living is is a whole other blog entry...).
So, the book of Proverbs in and of itself does not have any glimmers of retribution theology. It is a collection of folk wisdom that is prolific in any and every human society, to promote wise living and deplore foolishness.
Therefore it does not need to be qualified by the experiences of Job and Qoheleth.
Now that we can read the proverbs for what they are we must read them from where they are. That is we need to read them in the collected state: in a book, which makes them literature. Then we need to ask, why have they been put into the Bible and become scripture?
That is what my Project is about.....
Far too late for my Wisdom Literature exams, and only just in time for my Exit Project on Proverbs, I think I understand the Book of Proverbs! Or, at least the question about retribution theology.
It's almost standard talk in Wisdom Literature circles to say that Proverbs seems to have glimmers of retributive theology. Retribution theology is the belief that certain actions will guarantee certain blessings or punishments from God. For example, 'be a good girl and God will make you rich'. This is of course countered by the fact that some proverbs contradict each other, and of course the existential realities of Job and Ecclesiastes show that this rosy-eyed optimism doesn't always work.
The problem I have with this view is two-fold. First it is based on the premise that Proverbs is disharmonious with the rest of the canon and therefore needs to be 'silenced' or qualified (which is the nicer more professional term, but it still does the same thing!) by other books. Second, it fails to read the proverbs for what they are.
If there is one thing that form-critics have done for us, it is remind us that the proverbs that are in the Book of Proverbs (BoP) originated as oral texts. That is they are collected folk-wisdom sayings. Many of them were originally floating around as one-liners. This needs to shape how we interpret the proverbs, but not quite how the form-critics suggest.
When I say to you "Cheaters never prosper" (an English proverb) you do not believe that cheaters never ever win, nor do you believe that I think that is the case. No-one does. Only a complete nincompoop would read them as unconditional promises. What we do understand almost innately is that the proverb is used to promote or deplore a certain behaviour or attitude. It is the inter-personal meaning that is of significance here. This is how they are used in the BoP. They have not morphed into some one's idealistic world-before-the-fall; they are included in the BoP to promote what the writer(s) believe to be wise living (what wise living is is a whole other blog entry...).
So, the book of Proverbs in and of itself does not have any glimmers of retribution theology. It is a collection of folk wisdom that is prolific in any and every human society, to promote wise living and deplore foolishness.
Therefore it does not need to be qualified by the experiences of Job and Qoheleth.
Now that we can read the proverbs for what they are we must read them from where they are. That is we need to read them in the collected state: in a book, which makes them literature. Then we need to ask, why have they been put into the Bible and become scripture?
That is what my Project is about.....
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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