Today is Saturday – Holy Saturday. Have you noticed how uncomfortable western evangelical Christians are with the Saturday of Easter? It seems that we don’t know what to do with this in-between space, the day in between Jesus dying and rising. It becomes a nothing day, when we go and stand in the supermarket queues… Read More Staying In Saturday
I was walking down Ponsonby Rd in Auckland when this shop window caught my eye. TRANSCENDENCE – SALE. What a lovely juxtaposition to ponder, what a challenge to our attitudes it contains. In religion, transcendence is a way of describing the aspects of a Gods nature and power that are not confined by the physical… Read More transcendence on sale
Happy Mardi Gras, – I don’t think I was too far into my journey of learning French when I worked out that this meant fat Tuesday – ever since then I have been delighted by the name. Somehow the more English ‘pancake day’ doesn’t quite contain the same magic and delight as Mardi Gras or… Read More pancakes are a distraction
Reflecting on Church in NZ 