Sep 14, 2018 | Articles, Canvas, Editorial
The hunches we have about Christianity’s place in society have some fresh statistics to inform them. In May, the Wilberforce Foundation published Faith and Belief in New Zealand. It’s a national survey of 1,007 Kiwis and in-depth interviews with 26 focus group...
Mar 22, 2018 | Articles, Canvas, Editorial
Christians make the best travellers. I have zero research to back this up, but think about how the Bible describes God’s people: Sojourners. Pilgrims. Strangers. We’re sent to and called out, in but not of. We welcome those who are separated from their own homelands,...
Nov 9, 2017 | Canvas, Editorial
In a world where we can’t always keep up with what’s happened today, we don’t often go to the trouble of wrapping our heads around the long ago. However at uni I was lucky enough to find lecturers with a gift for bringing old stories into the present, so I dabbled in...
Sep 4, 2017 | Canvas, Editorial
New Zealand has the developed world’s highest rate of youth suicide, according to Unicef. And now Parliament is preparing to discuss (again) a bill that would allow any adult who finds life “unbearable” to schedule a less messy, doctor-assisted suicide. Aotearoa isn’t...
Apr 5, 2017 | Canvas, Editorial
Even in a place and time where “post-truth” nabs Word of the Year, people still insist on making truth claims. We’re wired to know. So one of the biggest challenges we face as truth-believing Christians isn’t actually convincing people that truth exists. It is to...
Dec 8, 2016 | Canvas, Editorial
It doesn’t matter how many times it happens, I always flinch: Someone says “para-church” and “TSCF” in the same sentence, and their innocent remark sets off an internal hashing-through of the relationship between the two. It’s a petty bugbear, but the end of that...
