Last week I went to the presentation of the Faith and Belief Study funded by the Wilberforce Foundation, which ran alongside the Church Life Survey that St Paul’s was part of. This study surveyed 1,009 people, which represent New Zealand demographically and geographically, on their attitudes towards faith and belief. From this detailed survey good…
At a parish meeting in February 2021 about the future of the Parish we decided to use the facilities, especially the hall, as a vibrant centre to serve the community. After conversations with several community groups and the city council we agreed that this would be best achievable through partnering with the LOOP Youth Centre.…
Green Party politicians in New Zealand made some controversial statements during protests in favour of Palestine recently. To balance this, I thought I’d point to another speech of a Green Party politician. The Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Green Party co-leader Robert Habeck recently gave a speech on this issue, which takes a different approach: […] It was the generation of my grandparents…
For thousands of years parents have sung lullabies to help their children sleep. I think I started singing songs when tucking up my daughter in bed from the time when she moved into her own bedroom. She was five months old at the time. With that I continued a long family tradition of singing songs…