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Suffering With: A Tender Journey of Mutuality in Suffering, Comfort, and Joy
Write “tenderly.” That was the prompting I felt from God as I prayed for the umpteenth time for guidance on how to write this article. I heard it in my heart: “Tenderly.” Friends, this is a challenging journey. The call to “suffer with” in the role of pastor, therapist, counselor, or chaplain is one that…
Read MoreReligion and Violence – Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf gives a guest presentation on the On Being with Krista Tippett website. Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around the world. Our guest knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his personal history. We’ll speak about what goes wrong when religion turns violent, and why, he believes, the…
Read MoreThe Christian response to terrorism and how we respond theologically
A public lecture by Canon Andrew White on 6 November 2018 at Laidlaw’s Henderson campus. For more than a decade Andrew pastored one of the largest churches in Iraq, St George’s Church in Baghdad, earning him the moniker “The Vicar of Baghad”. He is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy,…
Read MoreLament for the Christchurch Mosque Attacks
Songs for worship by Malcolm Gordon
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 MoreFresh Expressions
This movement in the UK has been going for a number of years now and continues to see innovative ideas for faith communities and initiatives being planted, grown, reviewed and seeded. This website takes you to urban and rural stories (see also https://www.ruralministries.org.uk), across a range of theological and cultural contexts, to wisdom from lessons…
Read MoreOneVoice
A great online resource for worship leaders featuring the songs of Malcolm Gordon and a number of friends, as well as the Illustrated Gospel Projects of Luke and Mark that gather the work of creatives from around Aotearoa and beyond.
Read MoreThe Resilience Check-In
The Resilience Check-In is a website of videos and other resources, and coaching, offered by John Fawcett, a NZ forensic social worker experienced in humanitarian work locally and overseas, with especial interest in helping leaders process through trauma. John is a warm Christian leader with perceptive wisdom to offer.
Read MoreWhen Women Speak
This excellent website is a meeting point for Christian women, missiology and Muslim women. It contains resources for respectful engagement with Islam, and faith witness.
Read MoreThe Global Church Project
This website library of videos and other resources brings wisdom from a huge range of church leaders across the Global Church on a huge range of topics – particularly connecting you into leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America – for the purposes of renewed mission and revitalised churches.
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