She was nudging me to realise that my dissatisfaction with life as a good religious person was a healthy disquiet

And then I see a jet stream. I could easily dismiss it quickly as a plane going over head, or I could take time to consider…

Without Christ the best we can hope for is what we can achieve for ourselves.

Take a moment to consider the situations – and the people – that you have come to accept as impossible.

Growing up in small-city 1970’s Aotearoa we didn’t think much about music that might be considered serious and high-brow.

I like that. The world as the theatre of human history, that is, the world as the place where God and people meet and live together.

When the angel left Mary, the challenges and problems of this new era of her life had just begun.

Unbridled ambition is problematic and resentment is exhausting. Love, generosity and forgiveness really is foundational,

Rote learning was a norm in my primary school days, repetition of the times tables, two times two equals four, three times two