On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we were walking through a local shopping mall and saw they’d put up this tree: It turned out to be a wishing tree – people were invited to write their wishes on a card, and hang them on the tree. The branches were full of notes. …
Category Archives: Expressiveness
Hebrew Aleph Bet Song and Vowel Song
Cheryl and I have just started learning Hebrew this year at SMBC. To keep things fun we’ve been using a variety of methods. We learned the Hebrew consonants using this song we found online (here’s us singing it): Then we came to the pointed vowels (they’re similar to pinyin in Chinese, but in dot/dash form). …
May all pay attention to Elisha
A few months ago, I submitted a 2500-word response to 1 and 2 Kings as part of studying the Old Testament at college. The lecturer invited us to be as creative as possible – poems, board games, flow charts, music albums were all fair game. My response ended up being a selection of acrostic poems …
Technology tells us we can’t sing
ChristianWeek columnist Michael Krahn writes a perceptive column and points out the rising trend in people who say they cannot sing. An excerpt: “I see a parallel between the lack of confidence in singing and the world of visual images in tabloid and fashion magazines. Photoshopped images create unrealistic body expectations. In the modern era …