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Let’s Talk about Sex [Toys], Baby! God, Pleasure, and Taboo
A contributor discusses complex, taboo-ridden world of sex toys, pleasure, and masturbation, seeking to explore an honest, realistic, scriptural view of the issues at hand.
Women in Leadership: What’s the Big Deal?
Grace Doak challenges the environments churches create for women, and explains the importance of change in order to empower women in leadership.
Lent: How the Ancient Christian Practice Might Transform Easter This Year
Grace Paddison shares an important challenge and reflection about the place of Lent this year.
What Waitangi Means to Me: Reflections from Tangata Tiriti
We asked three Christians who are tangata tiriti how they commemorate and think about Waitangi Day.
What Waitangi Means to Me: Reflections from Tangata Whenua
We asked three Christians with whakapapa Māori how they commemorate and think about Waitangi Day.
Things to Read This Waitangi Day
A reading list and opportunity to reflect as we mark the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The Gift of Advent
In our final post for the year, Kevin Byung Ki Park shares a pastoral reflection on the meaning of Christmas.
What the Covid Protection Framework Taught Me About Following the Spirit Into Unexpected Places
Steven Goulstone reflects on some of the difficult decisions his church has made amidst the Covid Protection Framework.
Minecraft: Virtual Colonialism?
Timote Naulivou explores his own gaming habits, the way they form us, and the troubling narratives that can be embedded in them.
Review: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You?” and the Envy of Faith
Andrew Clark-Howard reviews Sally Rooney’s latest novel and what it says about the modern crisis, and longing, of faith.
A Theology of Making Tea
Jaimee van Gemerden reflects on the types of theological knowledge that are privileged in the church, and offers suggestions for ways all types of theology can be honoured.
More Than Thoughts and Prayers: How to Love Your Neighbour During the Climate Crisis
As COP26 gets properly underway, Elise Ranck and Olivia Yates reflect on the political apathy of many Christians in light of Jesus’ political call to neighbourly love.