Christianity: a prescription gone wrong?
Today’s traditional Christians proclaim that they have “good news for the world” yet appear as one of the least compelling people groups on the planet. .
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Listen up.
I read a great article in the latest Christianity Today issue. The writer, Christine Herman, was talking about the power of arguing with our mouths shut.
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What to do with doubt?
It's a familiar story. Or perhaps it should be. A young adult from a Christian family hits university and begins to have doubts, and is confronted with questions, about their previously unquestioned Christian faith.
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Committing to church in a casual age
With life and work becoming increasingly casual for many people, how does this affect the church? Belonging to a church is an invitation to commitment. Yet statistics show that church-going is becoming less regular...
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I’m Engaged! At Last!
The next General Election in New Zealand is coming up on Saturday 23rd September 2017. This is the opportunity that those of us who are 18 years of age or older have to participate in our democratic right...
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Communities with long memories
We live in a society permeated with stories. Some are personal, some impersonal. Some fictional, others lived out through every waking moment. What we often forget as we are figuring out our own individual plot lines is that there are bigger stories...
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Obsession with the ‘centre’
Christian culture is near obsessed with the centre. Words like ‘mainstream’ and ‘crossover’ drip off the tongue like diamonds. Influence is king.
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I'm sorry, I have to give what to who?
I'm 23 and I'm having a mid-life crisis. I just got home from a 21st where I was talking to a 21 year-old about how he always thought that by 23 he'd have it sorted—got the job, got the girl, got it together (then awkwardly admitted that he's not looking good on any of those…)
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Desmond Tutu and Les Misérables' lesson: be the difference
1940's apartheid South Africa: a small African boy of age nine and his mother, a domestic worker, are walking down the street. Passing the other way is a tall white man, a priest in a black cassock.
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Facts Sheet—2017–18 EPL season
The 2017–18 (EPL) English Premier League, is the 26th season, the top English professional league since the establishment of the current association football program in 1992.
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Three things a Baptist learnt from the Anglican Church
Eight years ago I attended an Anglican church for the first time. As a Baptist pastor's daughter I was suddenly transplanted into a church community where men sometimes wear dresses, people sprinkle water on babies' heads...
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Abortion celebrated—a disturbing paradox
About a month ago everyone was all abuzz over the first public appearance of Xiao Liwu, the baby panda bred in captivity at the San Diego zoo. The world cooed and pondered this miracle of life engineered by the San Diego zoo and their panda breeding program.