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What is wrong with New Zealand?
Well, certainly not everything. There is still so much about this country to appreciate and enjoy, including God’s beautiful creation, our mix of cultures, and our traditionally down–to-earth ways. And much else.
Great data about your church at your fingertips
Do you know that in New Zealand we have a nationwide survey of church attenders? The Church Life...
Some Christian reflections on transgenderism
Until very recently, all human cultures believed – and many still do – that, apart from very rare cases of physical intersexuality, all humanity is comprised of two biological sexes or genders, male and female, and that it is not possible to move from one to the other.
Upholding a free and open society
In a free and open society, being offensive in the eyes of those who hold different views is not sufficient grounds for having your freedoms of opinion and expression denied.
The floods: what is the Christian church doing?
A collection of stories and reports from individuals and churches around the country in response to the January and February storms that battered much of the North Island
An interesting question: is God punishing New Zealand?
Most Christians would hesitate to name specific natural disasters as God’s punishment. Can we be certain we definitely know God’s mind in this?
God …and storms, earthquakes, Gen Z, and ‘hate speech’ law
Dr Stuart Lange offers insights and highlights some prayer needs on recent events in both NZ and overseas.
Lest we forget: it’s a Covenant!
Many Māori see the Treaty in spiritual and Christian terms as is seen in one of their names for the Treaty: ‘Te Kawenata o Waitangi’ (‘the Covenant of Waitangi’). Covenant is a very appropriate word to use. The word itself is of Latin origin (con venire), meaning a coming together.
The Spirit of Waitangi
What is the “spirit” of the Treaty of Waitangi? Often discussion of this question is focussed exclusively on the text of the Treaty itself. But it is also helpful to consider the wider ceremonial context in which the Treaty was first enacted.
Praying for New Zealand, as 2023 gains momentum
Dr Stuart Lange lays out some key prayer points at the start of the year for Aotearoa New Zealand
Christmas and Christians, Congress, summer closedown
As Christians, we need to work hard to keep Christ central to Christmas. Our modern secularised society primarily sees Christmas as a special festive family get-together, with lots of food and drink, and as the start of the summer holiday season. Such a cultural tradition has its place, for sure, despite the pressures of getting everything ready.
What will it be like having 200+ New Zealand Christian leaders gathering together in the same room?
We believe it will be stimulating, inspiring, challenging, thought-provoking, instructive, encouraging, Gospel-minded, and biblically grounded!
We strive to post articles that are either written by kiwis or are framed to our local and cultural context, and are faithful to biblical Christianity.