The Olympic Games in Paris have just concluded and New Zealand athletes won an astonishing 20 medals, 10 of those gold medals. That is quite an achievement for such a small nation. It is also considerably more than New Zealand athletes had achieved in previous years. I particularly remember the games in Atlanta in 1996,…

Quite regularly on my day off I go for a walk in the Port Hills. The walking tracks I most often use are those close to a bus stop that enable me to get as high as possible quickly. I also like to walk along the tops. Some of these tracks are quite steep in…

Last year we had a sermon series about the Apostle’s Creed. During August this year I will look at a more recent confession, the Barmen Declaration of 1934. As many other confessions, it was the result of a crisis in the Church. In this case, the crisis was the attempted take-over of the German churches…