On Saturday I returned to gnaw on the bone that is the Coastal Challenge 17km race from Brown's Bay along the beach to Devonport. It is a...

Superglue is one of my favourite products. Why? Because I have had notable success with it in lengthening the useful lifespan of so many ...

adjective adjective: bipolar; adjective: bi-polar 1. having or relating to two poles or extremities. e.g.: "a sharply bipolar division of...

I was plotting some clever segue from the title of the song Tiptoe through the tulips to the parody title Tiptoe through the true bits, w...

I know last year my friend and former colleague the Rev. Dr. David Clark MP was castigated for his Covid rule-breaking as the minister of...

The last week or two I have experienced pain in my lower back and legs – knee, Achilles, upper hamstring etc. In several cases these rel...

Trump used the metaphor of 'draining the swamp' upon his shock, triumphant arrival on the Washington DC political scene four years ago. T...

A dedicated team led by Philippa and her gardening expert friend Kate waged war today on the manse garden, which (alarmingly) contained a...

Greetings to you all, hoping you have had a pleasant Christmas and New Year time with safe travels and uplifting times with family and fr...

Dear friends, I sigh as I once again realize Christmas has caught me by surprise as it always does. My family chide me for being an unlov...

Sunday December 27th at 10am Browns Bay Presbyterian Church 45 Anzac Road Browns Bay Joining together with the churches on the Shore. L...

I apologise if several layers of thought coalesce into one stream here. It is the week when the electoral college of the United States co...

On Sunday we acknowledge and celebrate the finale for children's ministry in our church for 2020. It's a bit different this year as the a...

Twelve colourful stone foundations for the walls of the New Jerusalem —detail of painting by Joan C. Thomson Last week on Sunday we spent...

#1 - the first 23km Psalm 104:3 'you set the beams of your chambers on the waters, you make the clouds your chariot, you ride on the wing...

I was talking to a colleague about the prayer practice of Ignatian Contemplation, which engages the imagination by focusing on a gospel s...

Jesus, in Luke 14, asked the gathered crowd; 'For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost...

I get discouraged with the tone of so many polarized debates online. Virtually every political, environmental, moral, religious, practica...

As a young man I learned a valuable lesson about which wagons to get on board. For the only time in my life I had gone lame with a really...

I found this gem of a book in a charity shop in Cambridge for a couple of bucks the other day; Evangelism for the Rest of Us: Sharing Chr...