How many of us know what our Sunday School children learn from week to week? Perhaps we should catch them at morning tea and ask them...

Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let...

On Saturday night 10th July I made a snap decision to go and see Derek Lind (and band) at Kumeu live. I haven't made a habit of seeing...

Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash There has been a mild media flurry about a revision to existing Hate Speech laws proposed by the...

It felt to me like a lot of community building activities on the weekend, aside from the usual stuff including morning church. I really...

Today I got to be a whānau support person in court for the very first time. I can see why it's important to have support as the whole...

Laps of Kainui Lake early in the morning began amid the disorientation of a low Waikato fog. Fortunately, no navigation was required as...

Exodus chapter four finds God cajoling Moses into leading the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt and eventually to the promised land....

Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Someone raised with me on Monday the interesting observation that in Revelation chapter 21 there is no...

Mostly humans do better when they belong to something. There is something healthy about being in relation to other people, although some...

My Mum, spitting out bits of confetti, June 1964 Before the Rotorua marathon, I spent a couple of days at Mum and Dad's in Cambridge,...

"Jesus observed that the religious leaders of his day needed new eyes with which to see what was going on and new ears to hear what was...

5th May finds me at the tenth anniversary of my ordination to the ministry of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church of...

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The holiday Monday after ANZAC Day saw most of the family involved in a vigorous session of...

Psalm 46 opens with the words; 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.' We experience our own small losses and...

Leave everything quietly to God my soul. God alone suffices. God is everything to me, my rock, my rescue, my refuge. For God alone my...

Photo by Mike Labrum on Unsplash A faithful Christian might consider the call to prayer ubiquitous, all encompassing, something that...

Easter, the point at which the whole Christian world turns, the watershed of history. Or just another long weekend? I don't feel I have...

Photo by Adrien Bruneau on Unsplash The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines stigma quite fully and variously, literally meaning; 'a mark...

Downtown Yangon, yesterday or the day before. It is both helpful and alarming to have friends with close contacts in Myanmar. The news we...