As the weather has been nice and sunny in recent weeks, we’ve been visiting a few different playgrounds in Christchurch. We hop on buses and move from one playground to the next. That way we not only discover many of Christchurch’s parks and playgrounds, but also neighbourhoods that we probably would never have occasion to…

A while ago I read the book “To dream again”, which talks about helping churches come alive again. Some of the book would also be applicable to a church like St Paul’s, which is part of the wider Anglican Church. The author also discusses the health of churches and whether they are heading into a…

Some time ago I read the book “God knows where they come from” about the lives of four church leaders from different denominations, who all grew up in Hokitika on the West Coast. There’s the Anglican, the Methodist,the Presbyterian, and the Catholic. Even though in the middle of the 20th century, the different denominations often…