Types of Content
Looking for Lament: Exploring the Presbyterian handling of the Psalms during World War Two: Malcolm Gordon Feb 2019
Malcolm Gordon for Presbyterian Research Network, 28 February 2019. In this paper, Rev. Malcolm Gordon offers insights into the place of lament in our Christian faith – which is often an absence rather than a presence. In exploring our published liturgies and hymns over time, he has found a disturbing trend away from the expression…
Read MoreQ & A: Looking for Lament: Exploring the Presbyterian handling of the Psalms during World War Two
Malcolm Gordon for Presbyterian Research Network, 28 February 2019. Post-talk question and answer session
Read MoreRecords, Records, Records…what should you keep?
What kinds of records should your parish be keeping? Find out the types of records that your parish should be preserving.
Read MoreHow We Gather
How We Gather is a website detailing research Harvard Divinity School (USA) did that uncovered a number of features of how millenials gather, with direct implications for the being and doing and leading of church now and into the future. It is well worth an explore! Make sure to check out the reports the researchers…
Read MoreResisting Empire
Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi te Waharoa was a significant figure in 1800s Aotearoa. With a call to peacemaking and advanced skills in contextual biblical interpretation, this Māori chief was key in the Kingitanga movement, founded two communities of peace, and grappled with deep contradictions through the wars for land that devastated the Waikato. Steve Taylor in…
Read MoreKen Edgecombe
Ken Edgecombe. Chaplain and Religious Education Teacher, Queen Margaret’s College A key lesson in faith formation: Put aside your preconceptions.
Read MoreContentment: Complicated and Liberating
In this video recorded in May 2018, theologian Christine Pohl (well known for her work on hospitality) is delivering her final sermon at Asbury Theological Seminary before retirement. She wrestles with the topic of contentment, modelling as she does so a rigorous conversation with scripture from which theology emerges to speak into contemporary reality.
Read MoreJesus Christ meets Ihu Karaiti
Listen to this fascinating presentation by Wayne Te Kaawa as he re-visions Christology through a Maori lens by exploring images of Jesus in traditional and contemporary Maori art.
Read MorePacific Identities and Well-Being
This book came out a while ago but is an excellent collation of wisdom from mostly Maori and Pasifika writers for supporting whanau through the difficult stressors life can bring, often as the result of colonisation, intermarriage, migration and socioeconomic insecurity. An excellent resource for family, friends and practitioners. https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/otago068826.html
Read MoreCourageous in Context
When she went on study leave Heather Simpson wondered why it is that we are so afraid of evangelism. And she decided to research how to regain our courage for sharing the gospel, discerned that prayer is key, invited others to join her in a Prayer Experiment and the rest, as they say, is history.…
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