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Share Your Story – Christine Harding
Christine Harding currently lives in Auckland, but still calls Hamilton home, and is the NZ National Director of OMF New Zealand. In this edition of ‘Share Your Story’, Christine tells us a bit about her background, passions, what she has, is and plans to get up to in...
A Letter to the Church about Islam and ISIS
From Glyn Carpenter, NZ Christian Network February 2016 (including a Muslim’s Response to Critiques of Islam) Janet Daley has called ISIS a 'death cult' Every time there is an international terrorist attack these days it seems to generate a spate of articles and...
Where is your Faith?
The week already began on a pessimistic note… And then came Friday 13th. Paris. Bloodshed.
Why “Reading the Bible Faithfully” matters
There are some things which are basic in our Christian lives - things like prayer, Bible reading, worship, witness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9e-mA3Msec NZ Christian Network organised two major discussions recently - one on marriage and one on...
Contradictions and Women in the Bible
One of the biggest obstacles to the biblical call to unity is the shallow or superficial reading of scripture. There’s still plenty of scope for disagreement even among specialists who are adept at plumbing the depths of a text in the original languages.
What Happens When We Lose Faith in the Transcendent?
In 2011 I spoke at the national interfaith forum on State and Church. Four years on, these comments seem even more relevant today than they were back then. Part 1 is a response to a paper presented by Professor Paul Morris from Victoria...