Resistance is a normal human response to change – when we feel the tides of change often our first reaction is to hold more tightly to what we know. Sometimes that’s a good thing – people who have been forced to emigrate from their homelands to settle in another...

Kia ora e te whānau In past months, we have heard a lot about breath and breathlessness as symptoms of Covid-19. And in the past week, the words “I can’t breathe” have been on our minds and in our hearts with news of the murder of African American George Floyd by a...

Kia ora e te whānau Thanks to the hard work of the Parish Council and the Health and Safety Committee, not to mention our government’s management of the pandemic here in New Zealand, we can meet in the church again this Sunday! Please remember to bring a pen to sign...

Kia ora e te whānau Winter is officially a month away but the shorter, colder days remind us that it is well on its way. For a lot of us, this means switching heating on, digging out warm clothing and preparing warming meals. But for many New Zealanders it means more...

Kia ora e te whanau I diverged from the lectionary this week, although I stuck with John’s Gospel because the loaves and fishes story in John 6: 1-21 drew me. I wove the story with some of the eight points of progressive Christianity in a brief exploration of the...

Kia ora e te whanau US architect Frank Lloyd Wright said “the present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” “The Living City” In these days of Level 3, we wait and hope for news of a move to Level 2. So too, did the Jewish...