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Bible Reading Plan with thoughts from Pastor Luke Taylor Part 1 -
January to June This is not intended to be a comprehensive
commentary on the bible, but it's a record of what has occurred to
Luke and ministered to him as he has read through the bible in a
year. He hopes that they are a blessing and a challenge to you too.
Bible Reading Plan with thoughts from Pastor Luke Taylor Part 2 -
July to December This is not intended to be a comprehensive
commentary on the bible, but it's a record of what has occurred to
Luke and ministered to him as he has read through the bible in a
year. He hopes that they are a blessing and a challenge to you too.
Colour is largely assumed to be already in the world, a natural
universal that everyone, everywhere understands. Yet cognitive
scientists routinely tell us that colour is an illusion, and a
private one for each of us; neither social nor material, it is held
to be a product of individual brains and eyes rather than an aspect
of things. This collection seeks to challenge these assumptions and
examine their far-reaching consequences, arguing that colour is
about practical involvement in the world, not a finalized set of
theories, and getting to know colour is relative to the situation
one is in – both ecologically and environmentally. Specialists
from the fields of anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art
history and linguistics explore the depths of colour in relation to
light and movement, memory and landscape, language and narrative,
in case studies with an emphasis on Australian First Peoples, but
ranging as far afield as Russia and First Nations in British
Columbia. What becomes apparent, is not only the complex but
important role of colours in socializing the world; but also that
the concept of colour only exists in some times and cultures. It
should not be forgotten that the Munsell Chart, with its
construction of colours as mathematical coordinates of hues, value
and chroma, is not an abstraction of universals, as often claimed,
but is itself a cultural artefact.
This book offers a ground-breaking critique of the concept of
'tradition' as it has been applied in the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander context. The authors offer a refreshing new style
of analysis. In writing that is rich in detail, strong in analysis
and informed by their research experience, they argue for a deeper
appreciation of the creativity inherent Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander social life, and the way that knowledge is
constructed and deployed in complex intercultural contexts in
contemporary Australia.Each chapter draws on detailed local
inter-cultural information which include Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander land and sea ownership and management, native title
processes, service delivery arrangements for health and outstation
management, and representations in art, song and broadcasting. In
each arena there are multiple engagements with broad global
processes. The advent of Native Title legislation has led
Indigenous communities across the country being required to
demonstrate their 'traditional' connections to country.For many,
their experiences of these processes are increasingly at odds with
the complex inter-cultural realities of their lives. They feel the
constraining effect of outmoded frameworks of 'tradition' in
legislation and policy where social and cultural innovation are
characterised as inauthentic. The book draws together key scholars
in Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander social research. The
authors provide productive ways of characterising Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander social life and develop a multi-disciplinary
theoretical critique to the concept of tradition.
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