Lorinda Pereira speaking on YouTube shares her Hokianga/Ngā Puhi perspective on Matariki (Puanga): "Matariki to me is a point in time...

Waitangi Waterfall after heavy rain, Omeru Reserve, Highway 16 If you've ever rafted over a waterfall you know there is really not much...

Various promptings have led me to meditate on Ezekiel 37: 1-14 which of course is the prophecy in the valley of dry bones. The Lord moves...

Muriwai - land, sea and sky The psalmist declares: The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork....

Having been chewing on the idea for a preaching series on heaven for some time, here goes. It's not fully formed in my head, but I've got...

I’m sure we can all think of places we have travelled to where the market vendors were enthusiastically happy to promote their wares to...

Having not been sick with anything at all for a number of years it was a bit of a shock to come down with shingles last week, a quite...

From Webb's Creek Track, Coromandel My brother reports from Napier that my parents often return to stories from France, where we briefly...

Having lived something of a charmed life, I've never broken a bone in my fifty plus years. However, I do have a number of visible scars...

I read an interesting article today about Vladimir Putin and his war in the Business Insider. I quote: "Bad news doesn't filter up in...

The walking trails of Waiheke Island are generally well marked, skirting vineyards, utilising berms and ducking into patches of native...

As with many things partly dismantled by the Covid season, the approach to Easter this year seems a little hurried, as if the long...

Panorama from Mt. Karangahake Exodus chapter 25 describes in detail God's instruction to Moses as to the construction of a sanctuary, a...

Bream Bay from Mt. Lion I was helping a friend move rental properties, from a run-down dump where the landlord clearly had no concept of...

Container ship from Mt. Victoria, Devonport Logistics noun the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. "the...

The other morning at about 4.30am I had a dream. Or at least I thought I did. It was very brief yet decisive, and consisted of a firm...

Health sociologist Andrew Dickson wrote the following last week in response to the vaccine mandate protest in Wellington; "The 1980s in...

Clouds over the Gulf, George Gair Reserve, Takapuna. We all experienced the grumpy cyclone winds and oppressive humidity a little while...

Forrest Hill sunrise 2022 ticks on and with each new day I suppose we see ourselves coming to the end of pandemic restrictions bit by...

Quote on a park bench, Quinton Reserve, Bayswater On a bike ride yesterday, I found the above quote from Father Terry Dibble close to the...