The Winter 2014 issue of Taonga magazine is out.

This issue of Taonga magazine keeps mission in the spotlight for 2014 – drawing on our missionary history, finding hotspots in today’s mission and looking toward the future.

Our contributors talk about what’s changed since Marsden and Ruatara first shared the message at Oihi in 1814, what we still have to learn from those times, and we take a trip to mission hubs across our Pacific church. 

Then we unpack some of the tough issues from May’s General Synod/Te Hinota Whanui: human sexuality and the church, the state of our bicultural partnerships and pulling back our impact on climate change.

It’s a brief nod to the upcoming NZ election with a young adults’ view of seven political parties and a word from our social service agencies on income inequality. Then there’s the regular round-up on care for creation, a touch of theology, kid’s church, books and film.

MISSION

Stepping up to a Decade on Mission
General Synod sets this Church on a new mission path

Africa’s mission to the West
Cathy Ross chronicles the changing face of global evangelism

Mad Dogs and missionaries
John Bluck unearths secrets in early missionary stories

Bucking the decline
Peter Lineham scans the latest on church growth from the CofE

Aussie battlers
Maori mission in Brisbane reaches out to the homeless

Beauty for ashes
Going to the heart of St Christopher’s Home in Fiji

Making waves in Tonga
St Paul’s Nuku’alofa carves out a stunning new home for moana theology

GENERAL SYNOD 

A place for all of us?
How we’ve responded to the General Synod/Te Hinota Whanui Way Forward on same-sex relationship blessings.

Let’s tackle this head-on
Tikanga Maori gear up for a face to face with Pakeha on treaty partnership in mission

Turning up the heat on climate change
How will we reduce our church’s investment in fossil fuels?

NZ ELECTION 2014

Putting Jesus in the Polling Booth
Spanky Moore reports on a young adult gospel-o-meter for 2014

Income inequality
NZCCSS asks: Who will tip the pay scales in favour of the poor?

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