- Shaking the Apple Tree- Jane Simpson
Poems in response to sexual abuse by Clergy in the Anglican Church My hopes are that the book will continue to help the survivors of sexual abuse and hold the Church to account. Judge Coral Shaw, Chair of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care said to me: ‘I welcome such creative endeavours…
- The Moral Dilemma of a Virgin Birth – A Woman’s Perspective
Lucy Nanson The problem is the way the Gospel writers have constructed their birth stories. Increasingly over the years I have found their accounts causing a deep-seated moral dilemma for me as a 21st century woman. While visiting a far flung Cathedral in Australia displaying icons of various saints, I decided to light a…
- Where is Wisdom?
A three-tikanga invitation to share ideas about human wellbeing and biblical wisdom. An informal discussion with Cassandra Burton-Wood in the embryonic stages of her research proposal. In our late modern context we regularly feel the “cry for wisdom” (Fiddes 2013)—the vague sense that the vast sea of information in which we are drowning is still…
- Life story: Elizabeth Tipping a ‘trail blazer’ for women’s roles in the church
Elizabeth Ayliffe Tipping blazed a trail for women in the Anglican Church, fighting for the inclusion of divorced and single women. Tipping, who died on March 24 in her 100th year, was the first woman in many roles within the Anglican Church’s Christchurch diocese. She was instrumental in founding the Association of Anglican Women in…
- Maori spirituality
AROHA FUND FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS FORMATION PROGRAMME funding for an applicant who is Tangata Whenua. Spiritual Growth Ministries offers a two-year part-time formation programme for spiritual directors. This beautiful model of “evocative” spiritual direction is grounded in contemplative Christian spirituality with an emphasis on Spirit-led listening, helping people be attentive to the presence, action and…
Poems in response to sexual abuse by Clergy in the Anglican Church My hopes are that the book will continue to help the survivors of sexual abuse and hold the Church to account. Judge Coral Shaw, Chair of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care said to me: ‘I welcome such creative endeavours…
Lucy Nanson The problem is the way the Gospel writers have constructed their birth stories. Increasingly over the years I have found their accounts causing a deep-seated moral dilemma for me as a 21st century woman. While visiting a far flung Cathedral in Australia displaying icons of various saints, I decided to light a…
A three-tikanga invitation to share ideas about human wellbeing and biblical wisdom. An informal discussion with Cassandra Burton-Wood in the embryonic stages of her research proposal. In our late modern context we regularly feel the “cry for wisdom” (Fiddes 2013)—the vague sense that the vast sea of information in which we are drowning is still…
Elizabeth Ayliffe Tipping blazed a trail for women in the Anglican Church, fighting for the inclusion of divorced and single women. Tipping, who died on March 24 in her 100th year, was the first woman in many roles within the Anglican Church’s Christchurch diocese. She was instrumental in founding the Association of Anglican Women in…
AROHA FUND FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS FORMATION PROGRAMME funding for an applicant who is Tangata Whenua. Spiritual Growth Ministries offers a two-year part-time formation programme for spiritual directors. This beautiful model of “evocative” spiritual direction is grounded in contemplative Christian spirituality with an emphasis on Spirit-led listening, helping people be attentive to the presence, action and…