Recently attention has been drawn to Sci-Fi picking up the ball that the church is dropping. Julie Clawson writes: In many ways these fictions take up the task that the church has nearly completely abdicated. Churches don’t use their collective voice and energy to challenge the existence of a world where God’s ways are not
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Thousands of people, for five days this August, have chosen to spend just $2.25 each day on food. They are doing this because there are 1.4 billion people who have no choice other than to do it every day. $2.25 represents the amount someone living in extreme poverty in New Zealand would have to live
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Bishop Sir Paul Reeves died in Auckland Sunday morning, 14 August. He was aged 78. The Reeves whanau (family) wish to acknowledge the immense support they have received since Sir Paul announced he was stepping back from most aspects of his public life after the recent diagnosis of cancer. The immediate whanau will spend some
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The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith by Peter Hitchens (Zondervan 2010). Peter Hitchens is the brother of well-known anti-theist, Christopher Hitchens. I had expected more of a book that worked systematically through arguments for God’s existence and against the points that Christopher Hitchens makes. Instead, in this relatively short book, there
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The latest Taonga magazine is out. There’s an article of mine in it on acedia. Especially for those who cannot get hold of the Taonga magazine, this is what I wrote: The sun beats down unremittingly from a cloudless sky bleached ashen. The monk, alone in the desert, finds every minute of the day excruciating.
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Religion is about weird stuff. Or so it seems. And so the media would have us understand. It is about an American nutter predicting the end of the world. It is about other nutters giving this man their money, quitting their jobs, having no backup plan… It is not about a man caring for his
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Speaking of weddings.. A couple of times a year, our daily local newspaper, the Press, publishes a lift-out Wedding Directory/Advertising Feature (called “I do“). There are very attractively presented hints, lists, articles, venues, jewellery, dresses, cakes, flowers, etc…. I wrote about the one at this time last year. That was the first one in which
