From the Far Side
Listen to a tale of two cities
A few weeks ago – seems a lifetime – I set out on a bright Christchurch morning to meet the editor of this estimable magazine for lunch.
Up to our eyeballs in true fictions
My father is a survivor of the Wahine sinking. Not in itself so remarkable. But in our family chronicles, this event looms large, up there with great-grandfather Ochcraglynski fleeing across Russia from the wolves.
It's colder inside the church
I am struggling towards the idea that we Christians have made the Church of God a place of stricture and boredom. We have stripped out the fun by our desire not to offend.
Mishaps on the money-go-round
It’s comforting in any crisis to have a scapegoat to savage, and the most obvious targets in our market meltdown are the fat-cat financiers who erected towering portfolios on sandbanks of debt. Did they never hear of King Canute?
A gay churchman says thank-you
Russell Armitage: Is it not a supreme irony that the church is the only institution in our society that has exemption from the Human Rights Act?
Pulling the plug on GAFCON?
Peter Carrell: The extraordinary decision of the Sydney Synod to affirm the principle of diaconal presidency leads me to think they will pull the plug on GAFCON if they proceed.
Obama: regaining the word 'Christian'
Judith Maltby: Perhaps the biggest irony of American politics of the last 30 years was that it was the liberal Jimmy Carter who woke the dragon of the Christian right.
‘I am because we are’ – voting & community
Peter Beck: It would cost $5 billion to save six million children's lives, and yet world leaders could find hundreds of times that amount for the banking system in a week.
Religion undergoes a resurrection
Andrew Brown: The return of ideology has taken us all by surprise because no one expected it all to be about religion.
