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Yes, a serious author. So serious that you really should check her out. Jasmine May Dodson has written and illustrated the most gorgeous little children’s book. It is called The Fancy Fable of the Fairy’s Frock. Check out this page: “Left and right they lookedand cocked their headsfor the way they had comewas now gobbled…
READ MOREAs a way of celebrating my fiftieth birthday I invited a bunch of friends to go with me on a pilgrimage to Marsden Cross in the Bay of Islands – the site of the first preaching of the gospel in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Along the way we stopped at various places where I told a little…
READ MOREI am on my way home after a ‘listening’ visit with Langham, as distinct from the usual ‘training’ trip, to East Africa and North India. The idea is to absorb the conversations of key people and then to participate in decisions which can progress the work the next stage. In East Africa, the Langham Preaching…
READ MOREWhile it will not be everyone’s cup of chai I did enjoy reading Ramachandra Guha’s A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002) on a recent return flight to the UK. As seems always to be the case, the sub-title says it all: “The Indian History of a British Sport”. The book tells the story…
READ MOREWith our move into a global mission role with Langham Partnership International (LPI), I have been busy writing our first letter and trying to track down the friends we have gathered over the years. [There may well be regular readers of this blog who would like to receive our letter … if so, drop me…
READ MOREOur 25 years with a NZ-focus in our ministry lives is drawing to a close. I am a sentimental-type and find myself doing a lot of reflecting on these years – and have even been given the opportunity to do so in the company of others. (a) The first opportunity came with the Baptist Historical…
READ MOREAfter 24 years of hanging-out with NZ Baptists I was farewelled as Principal of Carey Baptist College at last week’s Baptist Assembly. Me ol’ mate Andrew Picard was one who gave a speech using various cricketing jargon to get his point across. A fellow cricket fan, Andrew had even contacted the Black Caps (the NZ…
READ MOREBack on May 1 I shared with you that not only had I been granted some study leave, someone had gifted me five months in a gym with a personal trainer. I made myself accountable to you with a ‘before’ photo of me with the promise that I would include an ‘after’ photo as well,…
READ MOREA new season in our lives beckons with the engagement of our lovely Alyssa to Tim Hart. Barby and I couldn’t be more delighted. Tim has been in and out of our home for three years and has been a friend to each one in the family long before talk of engagement commenced. Here is…
READ MOREWhat better way to mark my 100th post than to tell you about my trip to The Oval. Being raised in India I have had a lifelong love for cricket. I used to listen to the dulcet tones of John Arlott on the BBC as a lad. I have even burdened readers of this blog…
READ MOREAbout Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.