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A future ?

A future ?

As the Footplate Padre I am familiar with a notice board at a railway station, now on-line, a timetable is composed of a myriad of finely calculated time allotments between each section of line. The same calculations are done for freight trains..

  • The end of everything (and what that means)

    I used to live on another planet.

  • Horrifying

    I recall as news comes of the death of Miep Gies at aged 100, we remember stories of sacrifice of individual citizens who helped Jewish families in Europe during World War II. Miep was the (then) young woman who helped the Frank family and friends in hiding for not two weeks not two months but two long years from 1942 to 1944.

  • Julie Belding – ARPA Life Member

    A few weeks ago now, on Saturday 7 September in Christchurch, Julie Belding was endorsed by the Australasian Religious Press Association as a Life Member.

  • Is the climate right for change?

    I have met few people who do not care about the environment. Most people I know are concerned about our planet and would like to see a better world with cleaner air, cleaner water, less pollution and less waste.

  • Culture & Change

    I’ve been involved with an organisation outside of the church I pastor for about 10 years now. Historically this organisation has been in existence for about twenty years and has grown substantially in its influence in our local community which has had wider benefit throughout New Zealand.

  • In the footsteps of Apostle Paul

    Known as the “Apostle of the Nations”, Saint Paul was one of the greatest figures of early Christianity. A prolific writer and scholar, Paul travelled extensively, planting churches wherever he went. Details of Paul’s life can be derived mainly from the 14 letters he addressed to Christians living in different regions during his time.

  • Royal Commission Learnings

    At the time of writing, I am in the humbling position of being one of two Salvation Army representatives at the first public hearing of New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

  • Being spiritual – and spirituality

    A young woman was out trekking in the Australian outback. Somehow she and her companion had forgotten to bring their hats.

  • What brings joy?

    Over the last ten years, I have watched my parents age. They stopped playing golf and darts. They stopped looking after their garden and going on holidays.

  • I’m different from you

    Like it or not, I’m different from you and I’m okay with that. Your name, your age, your gender, your ethnicity and occupation may be different.

  • The Grant Harris Story

    I was born in Palmerston North in July 1970, a provincial town north of Wellington in the southern North Island, New Zealand.