Lifestyle

Reflections on Water

Bryden Black offers reflections of how one woman’s life was changed forever by water talk.

Dialogue: Bishop Graham Cray

Bishop Graham Cray heads up the Fresh Expressions team in the UK and visited Christchurch in July. Spanky Moore caught up with him to talk Fresh Expressions.

Rethinking Aged Care

The Anglican Church shouldn’t be in the business of building residential homes, according to consultant psychiatrist Dr Matthew Croucher, who addressed this year’s AGM of Anglican Aged Care.

Reflections on Waiting

Alister Hendery reflects on the challenges, and fruits, of waiting.

Life Between Vicars – the art of creatively waiting

About a fifth of the diocese’s 71 parishes are in the process of recruiting a new vicar. The interim period, the time between one vicar leaving and the appointment of another, presents congregations with a number of opportunities and challenges. Megan Blakie investigates how to make the most of life between vicars.

Reducing Our Waste Line

Young adults from Anglican churches have helped connect a supermarket with the Christchurch City Mission as a way of using food waste to help those in need.

Petrol Head Church

Petrol-head pastor Andrew Allan-Johns is kicking tyres with North Canterbury blokes and their families at a new type of church service.