Glorifying God through culture

Canvas | Issue 91: Engaging with Culture Through a Gospel Lens     Rabena (Bena) Tanielu and her niece Kuini Seuseu serve as associate staff workers for TSCF in Auckland. They share some personal reflections on how the gospel has shaped their own views and...

Campus & culture

Canvas | Issue 91: Engaging with Culture Through a Gospel Lens     Engineers are boring, basic and pragmatic. Lawyers are trendy, articulate, and bourgeoisie. These are caricatures of course. Except when they’re not… I’ve had the privilege of doing student...

Take a deep breath

Canvas | Issue 88: People of Prayer Unlike some on these islands, I am not a regular visitor to high altitude. Except for my travels on Air New Zealand and the occasional jaunts on hills around the country, I’m rarely too far above sea level. Following my recent visit...

The state of the boiler room

Canvas | Issue 88: People of Prayer Think of the most capable, gifted Christian leader you know. It doesn’t have to be a personal acquaintance, just someone you’ve heard about – no doubt with a sense of awe and wonder. Perhaps he or she is a brilliant speaker or...

Fear, forgiveness and the gospel

New Zealand is a country saturated in God’s common grace. Sure, we have our problems,  but we’re served by stable and accountable government that has ensured religious freedom, prosperous without being ostentatious in our wealth, filled with astounding natural beauty,...

Love my neighbour

Like many in Christchurch’s Indonesian community, associate staff worker Ani Kartikasari lost a friend on March 15. In the days that followed the massacre, the lecturer at Lincoln University supported students, victims and their families as they came to terms with the...