Imaginative monologues by key characters in the Passion and Death of Jesus captured the hearts of the audience at a locally-devised and produced play at St Mary’s Church, Palmerston North, on Passion Sunday, March 28.
During one of the periods when the court was closed to the public while counsel discussed points of law, Aunty Raina looked around the packed waiting area outside courtroom number 3 and said, ‘This is church. Look at all these people come to support the three men.
The actions of the protesters have drawn intense criticism from many people, including Catholics. The protesters never denied that they broke the law, which raises the question of when persons might be justified in breaking laws for what is perceived as a greater good.
One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 17, colonial troops began the bombardment of Wiremu Kingi’s Te Kohia Pa. It was an unprovoked act of aggression against iwi desiring nothing more than to live, as they had done for generations, in peace on their own land.
Terms of Negotiation were signed between the Crown, Te Atiawa and Taranaki iwi on March 17, the 150th anniversary of the start of the Taranaki land wars.
On Wednesday, March 10, as part of the Challenge 2000 Gap Programme we visited the Wellington District Court to witness part of the Waihopai Spy Base Trial (March 8 ‘ 17).
Everything was safe and predictable while he was in the front doing the steering, but whenever Jesus took over, the journey got exciting, wild and a little scary. Jesus would simply smile and say ‘pedal’!
Interfaith dialogue is well established in this country though fragile, participants in a recent national forum heard.
Once people realise that Jesus was about shocking people out of a binary way of seeing the world into using their heart to understand the way the world could be, Cynthia said, they could see how a kingdom of God could come about.
Rather than covering the question of authorship, I believe it is far better to come to a deeper appreciation and understanding of the timeless message and relevance of this letter.