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‘Do you know what it’s like to feel, completely and with absolute certainty, that something terrible is about to happen and yet be powerless to stop it and then when it does happen it steals your heart right from beneath your arms, leaving you hopeless an

The question of how we celebrate Eucharist – take spiritual nourishment from bread and wine – while some six million people are dying each year from undernourishment is something Christians must ponder much more deeply.
This is the message of Austra

Creation was the primary place in which God is obvious, that creation is itself a sacred presence. People often feel that when they go into the forest or into the mountains or in the ocean. We know the common experience. People say, creation can take us i

An ecumenical peace action group has been formed in Upper Hutt after a highly successful Peace Day on 5 November focusing on the peaceful resistance which occurred on that day in 1881 at Parihaka.
As the rest of the country celebrated Guy Fawkes wit

Our synod ‘Salt and Light Together’ was a major event of 2006, but it was just the beginning. The participation of so many people in the synod process is something I continue to be deeply grateful for. I also continue to give thanks for the commitment of

Last Sunday we had a balls-up. It doesn’t happen often but this was comic. I arrived early in Tian-Go for 9am mass to find the church locked. Usually, one of the lay leaders opens the church, sweeps the floor and gets it ready for Mass, so it was odd that