Mar 22, 2018 | Articles, Canvas, Views
If you’re not a different person by the end your trip, you haven’t done it right. Why does our generation place such a spiritual emphasis on travelling? In a world of millennial wanderlust manufactured by bloggers and social media, I’d like to question why we expect...
Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, Views
Mike Summerfield and Roshan Allpress talk about how the church’s past does, and how it could, shape its present. What lessons from history need to be re-learned in Kiwi churches today? We have happily received the Reformation ideal that power ought to be placed...
Sep 5, 2017 | Canvas, Views
When I was in my third year of studying medicine, things in my life started spiralling downhill. I was hardly sleeping or eating, was having trouble concentrating at university, and was feeling incredibly low and anxious about life. I was having thoughts that my...
Sep 5, 2017 | Canvas, Views
Judge Andrew Becroft is Children’s Commissioner, a former student leader with Auckland EU, and more recently served as Principal Youth Court Judge. He also chairs TSCF’s board. A longer version of this article ran in the NZ Herald on 4 August, 2017. We all have hopes...
Apr 5, 2017 | Canvas, Features, Views
How to recover reality in an age of attractive illusions So, here we are, occupying our little place in space, our short moment in time. What do we know? More to the point, how do we know what we know is true? If we are gods, we can decide what is true and what isn’t....
Apr 5, 2017 | Canvas, Views
How to leverage finite knowledge in a world of clickbait and deadlines I received a call at the end of a busy day while stuck in traffic, so I was probably in a bad mood. However the caller proceeded to explain a scenario that would make most journalists sit up. They...
