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Getting angry for the Gospel

Getting angry for the Gospel

We live in interesting times. Apparently it is likely that right now, if you are born anywhere in the world, conditions are likely to be the best they have ever been. .

  • The fragility of life

    Life can be described in so many ways: fulfilling, hard, long, fun, meaningless, meaningful, exhausting, exhilarating. Yet there is one word that seems to most accurately describe life in all forms—fragile.

  • Lost in translation

    I was 17 years old when God told me who I was going to marry. I remember it so clearly. I was living in Sydney at the time, and had come home to Auckland for my uni break. I was sitting in church, my 'future husband' was on stage playing in the band and it hit me like a ton of bricks.

  • Trial and triumph

    Often in the work place you have to deal with power politics and passive-aggressive colleagues or customers who undermine, backstab, gossip and bully.

  • Beliefs Christians should abandon: a dialogue

    It's 12:30pm as I walk through the village to meet a friend of mine at the local café, but it still looks like morning. These sodden Auckland days make all times seem the same.

  • In love with the shape of you

    I know little of Ed Sheeran’s music—until recently it was just a few seconds of a ringtone: “I’m in love with the shape of you.” I listened to the rest of the song.

  • Missing a piece of the puzzle?

    I'm not much for jigsaw puzzles, but I know that you need all the pieces to enjoy a satisfying outcome. In many ways, life is like a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle.

  • The death of pride

    Martin Luther, when asked to name the three greatest virtues replied, "First, humility; second, humility and third, humility." Knowing that humility is a good thing is one thing, but learning to be humble has its difficulties and it's not quite as simple as riding a bike.

  • The interruption of India

    I have spent most of my life struggling to fit into my skin. Not in an excess of skin, baggy-round-the-eyeballs sort of a way, but in a constant, rigorous and unrelenting wrestle to be okay in the skin that I am in. 

  • How to read the Bible: A case study of Matthew chapter 8, verses 5–13

    Sometimes it is really hard to come up with inspiration for writing an article. Two weeks ago, I was forewarned that Friday, March 3, would be the due date, and even then I couldn’t think of a juicy topic. This should never be!

  • So what's the plan?

    My mum has one particular recipe book that is prized above all others. It is the book in which she has collected family recipes passed down over the years, carefully hand-written by loved ones, some of whom are now no longer with us.

  • The things we have lost: Musings of an immigrant

    What does it feel like to be an immigrant? To be a refugee or a TCK (Third Culture Kid) or a stranger in a new city?